The Future Of Education

Here is a You Tube video on education in the 21st century
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQlNyTrKhAg&feature=related

Hello and welcome to my blog. It's focus will be on developing technology usage for and in the classroom. Our future students will need technological skills that don't even exist yet, so it is important to help them feel comfortable in today's technologies in order for them to lead the way with tomorrow's.
Education in the digital age is changing rapidly, and open-source software development is a cost effective way for schools and teachers to keep up. the following link provides some insight into open-source:
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/OpenSourceNarrowingtheDividebe/163586

Now that we've looked at what open source is, lets look at some examples such as Celestia, JMemorize, and Sugar. Take a closer look at them here:
http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software/educational

Here is a link to my practice Google site about ancient Mesoamerica civilizations:
http://sites.google.com/site/precolumbiaempiresstudypage/

This page gives an example of using technology to teach about the Civil War:
http://www.slideshare.net/fifer1863/using-technology-to-teach-the-civil-war-cwpt-presentation

First Practice Blog

This is my first attempt at blogging. It is for a class in education technology. Below is a link to my Google site:

http://sites.google.com/site/precolumbiaempiresstudypage/