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=PLEs if you Please: Authentic Networked Learning for the Digital Age=

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What happens to a learning environment when the role of teacher shifts from “sage on the stage” to facilitator of a participatory model of learning? Can students learn to ask good questions, discover and evaluate resources, collaborate, connect to others, and create artifacts to demonstrate what they have learned? What will they learn? Will they learn more deeply? Can indeed web 2.0 tools foster personal, authentic learning?

 Our presentation will address how three different schools (a public high school, a public middle school, and an independent middle school) with unique approaches successfully integrated various web-based technologies to deepen student engagement and learning i __n core content areas.__ By integrating tools such as student web portals (iGoogle, Symbaloo, Pageflakes, and NetVibes); RSS readers (Google Reader, PageFlakes, and NetVibes); research and note-taking applications (Evernote, Diigo, Delicious); reflection and documentation spaces (Blogger, Word Press); archival sites (Wikis, Blogs); and communication tools (Skype, email, iChat, Elluminate) we discovered truly powerful learning was happening for many of our students.

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