At a the gateway to the prairie, and I learned quite a bit about fontier life last night in the parking lot of my hotel. See this morning’s blog about adventures.
Today, I’m speaking at the opening of the 2006-2007 school year in Mitchell. I’ll be rolling two presentations together, Redefining Literacy and redefining the students in our classrooms, the Millennials. I guess that the message is that it isn’t our father’s future any more and that an unpredictable future requires a different notion of what literacy is, that it is far richer and much more exciting that merely being able to decode text. It’s learning literacy, because learning is what our children will be doing their rest of their lives.
Here are links to my wiki handouts for the day:
After this presentation, I’ll be meeting with the technology staff to discuss some of their goals and to explore, together, so new opportunities. Hopefully, this will be a learning experience for all of us.
