WorldChanges

=**Net2Blazers**=

(Al Upton, Yvonne Murtagh, Graham Wegner, Mike Seyfang, Deanne Bullen) =The world has changed so why haven't we?= Our esteemed panel will tackle this question in a lively but informal forum and focus on two additional sub-questions.

How do we address the educator digital divide?
__Al's Notes & Links__ [right-mouse click to open in new window] [|class blog 2007] http://alupton.edublogs.org/ [[|class blog and resources 2006] filtered now by DECS] [|edublogs.org] create your own blog, [|ed.sa.edu.au] educonnect login [|Create, Connect, Blog] - blogging resource [|South Australian Preschools Blogging Network] [scaffolding for all SA DECS preschools, kindys and childrens centres to have their own blog]

__Yvonne's Notes & Links__ Reading: DEMOS [|Their Space] Education for a Digital Generation by Hannah Green and Celia Hannon. (Jan 2007) Stimulus material for discussion. Download pdf. (Creative Commons) [|Their Space Podcast] on The Internet Archive. Hannah Green and Celia Hannon discuss the "Their Space" report. (Creative Commons)

__Graham's Notes & Links__ Some recent reading: [|Why is it so Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning?] Will Richardson - Weblogg-ed. [|Virtual Communities as a Canvas of Educational Reform] Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - TechLEARNING. [|On the leading edge: some ideas on managing huge technological change in education] Ewan McIntosh - edu.blogs.com

Connected Opportunity Example - Horizon Project 2007 (But you can only get your class involved if you are connected yourself!) Educator Divide Example - [|Classroom 2.0 Ning] or if you want to leverage the edublogger world - [|Edublogger World Ning].

__Mike's Notes & Links__ [|The ClueTrain Manifesto]. [|Mikes homepage with links to blogs etc].

__Deanne's Notes & Links__ TechLearning - [|Nine Excellent Reasons for Technology in Education] Futurelab article - [|2020 and beyond - Future scenarios for education in the age of new technologies]