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 * 1) What is the value of technology in education? Technology connects to everyday life (real world application) and produces authenticity. The technological jobs they will have in the future are not in existence today.
 * 2) How do we prepare students for the knowledge age and beyond? Teachers need to create a visual learning environment that goes beyond so students can find whatever information that is necessary to solve problems. Students need to be independent and life learners learners. They need to think, access information, and be able to create new information from what they have learned.
 * 3) What tools are appropriate for the classroom? Wikis, blogs
 * 4) How do we create technology-based activities that accompany the curriculum? Modify other's technology activities to fit our classrooms, use computer labs t
 * 5) Tell what barriers you have encountered to using technology in your class. We do not have enough computers to allow blogging. 1 stationary computer lab for the campus is not enough. Laptops, as seen today, do not have the battery life to allow for classroom use.
 * 6) Tell how those barriers can be overcome so that we prepare our students to be 21st century workers.
 * 7) Tell how this staff development day has gone. Include how can we improve it and how has it been successful. This course has been beneficial although stressing to us the Friday before school starts. How about having 2nd year teachers come a day or two before inservice (like new teachers do) to allow us the time to implement these ideas into our lessons. Also, the information in the afternoon was a repeat of the "Blogging" staff development session on Wednesday. This is good information, but only present one--or tell people that if they are 2nd yr teachers they do not need to attend "Blogging" because they will get it in 2nd year training.