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**What kind of teachers do students need today?**

 * Intro activity - http://bit.ly/9tZyLj

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Two kinds of education:
 * Basics (Focus on traditional literacies, test preparation, Standards Aligned Systems)
 * Basics + (Creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, communication, soft skills)

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How does technology fit in with your beliefs about education, especially in a world where communication and collaboration have been redefined?
 * Google Apps - http://www.gmail.com

-- Why Google? - collaboration, sharing, publication, storage -- all securely. //**Teachers and Principals Talk about Google Docs**//

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-- Documents/Spreadsheets

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Additional Resources
 * Google Apps Security Policy - Key points: It's our content, not Google's. Google doesn't look at our content. Google doesn't share our content.
 * Google Apps Education Center - **This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context. **
 * **Google Apps Lesson Plans - ** Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans. Have a Google Apps lesson plan? [|Submit] it for review.
 * Google Apps Education Community - This site is brought to you by Google – especially for Google Apps educators and students. Come join and help us build it!
 * Marzano's Instructional Strategies and Google Docs - Ways to use Google Docs to support setting objectives, providing feedback, homework and practice, and generating and testing hypothesis.

What kind of teachers do students need today?

 * Your thoughts...
 * My thoughts....2 P's