Educator and blogger David Jakes uses a term from his day as a biology teacher to describe how a classroom can safely be turned into a “learning community” that’s neither closed nor completely open to the outside world. “I’m interested in building skills in students that will make them successful when they ultimately join wide-open learning communities. I’m teaching them how to read blog posts, how to collaboratively create content in wikis, how to comment appropriately, how to manage RSS feeds, and how to manage content resources with social bookmarking tools. I’m teaching them how to operate in a community. And I’m teaching them all about safety.” I wish all my children’s teachers approached technology this way!
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