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Happy to have you here. Not sure if I mentioned, but this was the first time I'd presented this session on Finding 'It' on the Net in many years. - dfw

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Of course, when I first presented this session in 1998, Web 2.0 did not exist. We were still grappling with Web 1.0 ;-) - dfw

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We put! The exchange of knowledge and ideas always generates energy. It's why classrooms should be so explosive :-) - dfw

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Thank you! I'm constantly tweak this tool, trying out new features and ideas. It's an experiment and also a joy to be able to come back now and continue this conversation. - dfw

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Amazing what you can do with Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/). - dfw

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Sitting in David Warlick's session at #:WYtecc13 nice to get to watch one of my heroes present! #:dwarlick

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Sitting in David Warlick's session at #WYtecc13 nice to get to watch one of my heroes present! #dwarlick

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Yeah right! You are the maestro. You pluck the souls of your audiences. - dfw

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Yes! I enjoyed putting that together. BTW, I just uploaded the slide deck, as a PDF, to this URL: http://landmark-project.com/workshops/FindingIt_wyTECC.pdf - dfw

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Yikes! You're right! We were dialing into the Internet at that time. I remember, after I left the state department of ed and started working on my own, I used a 14,000 baud modem. Then I think we advanced to 36,000. I don't remember when I started using high speed. I think it was Earthlink. My first email address, after leaving the department was david@nando.net. Nando stood for N and O, or capital news paper, the News and Observer. - dfw

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Google turned us into a question asking culture. #:dwarlick #:WYtecc13

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Google turned us into a question asking culture. #dwarlick #WYtecc13

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"Google and what it represents." Yes, I believe that this is the case. It is difficult to imagine what it was like when all I had was a 1961 set of Comptons' encyclopedias and a small library that clear across town. What was the point of asking questions, when the answer were so hard to come-by. Today, answers are free -- but are they? :-) What is the cost today, of getting answers. It is the responsibility of assuring the they are good answers, answers that work for us. - dfw

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Edtech #FF @brholland @anthonydilaura @teachingwthsoul @SamGliksman @tollsy @ahrosser @dwarlick

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And again, how to assure that they are good answers. ..and also how to work those answers. At dinner the night before, we had a great conversation about how being educated to do is not just knowing the right answers, but also know what one can do with those answers, how to work them. - dfw

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I think that one way is to imagine a classroom of really smart students, and then to start to think of the Internet as an extension of their brains. It elevates the class and empowers the students. - dfw

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Yes! I'm using DIIGO (http://diigo.com/) now, because Delicious.com does not seem to support RSS anymore. Plus DIIGO has all of those other annotation features. - dfw

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It's one of the reasons that I push this idea of "teacher as master-learner" so hard. If teachers start to see themselves and define themselves as learners, then it gives them permission to not be the only purveyor of knowledge. - dfw

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I agree. The highlighting and and post-its are great, and it works across platforms. The bookmarklets seem to work well on my iPads. - dfw

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But isn't that what it is. And I've wondered if it might become a primary function of schools to help our students to curate their own personal digital libraries. They would graduate not simply with a degree, but also with a library to continue to grow. - dfw

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I need to look into this. There also use to be an open source tool that some schools were running on their own servers. The real power of DIIGO (and Delicious), in my opion, is that they are social. I have access to my library, but also access to the libraries of all other DIIGO users, all logically interconnected through our tags. - dfw

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..and pretending that we do is actually detrimental to our students education. We complain when they believe what they find on the Net. But isn't that what we teach them, to believe what we say and believe what's in the textbook. We surround them with information that is unquestioned, and then expect them to be discerning with the information is questionable. We need to teach with questionable materials so that they develop the habits of questioning. - dfw

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But also respect Wikipedia as a search ender in certain contexts. Is it really authority that we favor, or is it establishment? - dfw

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I agree. ..and quite frankly, I miss the and, or, and not items. - dfw

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Why did you tell them not to use it. It's value is that Wikipedia is questionable. We should not be teaching them to assume the authority of the information that they encounter. We need to get them in the habit of proving the authority. - dfw

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Another thing that's kinda cool about Wikipedia is tracking its edits. Look at the first entry on a topic and then click through all of the edits. It's like archeology, examining and thinking through the reasons why people made the edits that they did. - dfw

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Yes! Yes! Yes! If our students are not learning what they can do with knowledge, then they aren't becoming educated. They are just becoming little libraries. To me, rigor is not how much the students are learning, but what they are learning to do with what they are learning. - dfw

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David Warlick #:dwarlick recommending http:\/\/t.co\/AR3fxWuY8p #:WYtecc

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That's why it makes so much sense to adopt a process that dramatically improves those first few pages. - dfw

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That reminds me that when I was in graduate school (1987-1994), I was the only student in my program (Instructional Technology) who used the Internet. The only time, during that entire program, that I entered the campus library was during the final semester. - dfw

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This is extremely gratifying. Thank you! - dfw

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I think that a good practice might be to ask students to explain how they found it. This needs to go beyond posters and become part of the conversation of learning. I regularly suggest to teacher that they bring in as much from the Internet as they can, because this gives them the opportunity to say, "I found this yesterday on the Net, and here's how I found it, and here are the questions I asked to determine its value." - dfw

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The only thing that prevails over lazy is success. Does completing their school work fell like success to them? If it doesn't, then they're doing the wrong work. - dfw

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Tis so true! - dfw

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If you need to show them something from the Internet, then don't start with the something. Start with Google. - dfw

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I did too and still do. It's part of my belief that teachers are being encouraged to become teacher-technicians (following directions, checking off standards, pacing instruction), when what our students need are teacher-philosophers. - dfw

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Block Wikipedia? This angers me! - dfw

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Again, the problem is the assignment. If they are doing something that is valuable (even if it's not interesting), the students will do it. Do you that everything they do in video games is interesting. No! They do it because it gets them somewhere. - dfw

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Gotta check that one out. Thanks! - dfw

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I think that they task is understanding when its appropriate to get lost and when it's appropriate not to. When you get lost in your research, are you learning anything? ;-) - dfw

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It's an application for the computer called AirServer. It enables me to use Apple's AirPlay. - dfw

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Yes, Reflector is another product that does the same thing. I don't remember why I chose AirServer instead. It may have been cheeper. ;-) - dfw

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I know many people who swear by Evernote. I've not gotten it yet. There are too many tools that I use that do not integrate well with Evernote. Same with Zotero. - dfw

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Today's Meet is what I usually recommend to folks for backchanneling. - dfw

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Ain't that the truth. I often ask teacher, "How many of you learned what you teach better after you started teaching it, than as a student in university?" You know how many hands go up. - dfw

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It also shows that its the learning that we value, not the teaching. - dfw

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@dwarlick giving @willrich45 a big shout-out at #:wytecc1

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I mostly use Flipboard now. - dfw

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Absolutely. BTW, here a link to the blog post I mentioned about RSS'ing a Twitter search: http://goo.gl/HzwFr - dfw

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\"Literacy skills are easy, literacy habits are hard.\" Great quote @dwarlick #:WYtecc13

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"Literacy skills are easy, literacy habits are hard." Great quote @dwarlick #WYtecc13

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..and too true! - dfw

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@dwarlick Loving your 2nd session at #:WYtecc1

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@dwarlick Loving your 2nd session at #WYtecc1

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If you're not a programmer, then you're part of the software. #:dwarlick #:WYtecc13

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If you're not a programmer, then you're part of the software. #dwarlick #WYtecc13

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