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Cyberinfrastructure - Break Out Session
- Making it available to the masses
- Creating computerized classrooms - financial implications that accompany this
- Possibility of using iPhone for computing in the classroom
- Need for professional development - both in technology and the content areas
- Issues with relying too heavily on technology - "deskilling"
- kids can't make change
- kids use calculators, but don't understand the concepts behind it
- kids can't read maps, because they've only been using GPS
- Learning thinking skills as opposed to memorization and test-taking skills
- Diane Oblinger - papers on this generation of learners
- Assessment is a big issue
- Greater student interaction
- Schools need Instructional Tech Facilitators (with tech and curriculum background)
- Where is the media specialist's role in all of this?
