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Google launches classroom project (CNET)Weeks into the new school year, Google has started courting K-12 teachers with a resource guide on how to use its applications in the classroom, Stefanie Olsen writes. Late Wednesday, the search giant launched the site Google for Educators. The site includes how-to video tutorials for products like Blogger; lesson plans for applications like Google Earth; and links to a training academy for those who want to become a "Google certified teacher," a pilot program for teachers to learn about technology. Full article here. Running head: Digital Definers of the New Teacher Education (Wesley A. Fryer)"While a “new teacher education” has evolved over the past several years in the United States, in large part as a response to the accountability and standards movements in public policy as well as academic circles, formal reparation programs for the classrooms of the twenty-first century have generally failed to embody the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for the development of digitally literate students and netizens. Three “digital definers” are making a loud and persuasive case for fundamental changes in the way teacher education programs prepare students for the classrooms of today and tomorrow. The presence of digital natives in our |
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