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[|21st Century Learning Environmnents]
=Study: American kids spend 7.5 hours per day using electronics= from ZDNet Blogs by Andrew Nusca American youths now spend more than seven and a half hours per day using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study. -Chris

**Kids** Don't Blog Anymore? Maybe They Never Did
from ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez Is blogging for old people? Apparently so. Well, at least according to a new study from Pew Internet Project, that is. Today's youngest generation of online users are no longer interested in consuming long-form content like blogs, says the research. Instead, communication among teens tends to involve brief bursts of information, like a Facebook status update or a text message. Pew's findings state that only 14% of tweens and teens ages 12 to 17 now report that they blog, down from 25% only four years ago. They're also less interested in commenting on their friends' blogs, too, with only 52% reporting doing so, down from over three-quarters back in 2006. -Chris

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 * These are [[file:Off site Learning Opportunities.doc]]- upcoming conferences, classes and workshops. Please click on the link and review prior to our Feb 5th meeting. Let us know of any others that may be worthwhile.**

LHRIC - 4th Annual Tech Expo, March 5, 2010 Briarcliff Manor. [|Tech Expo 2010] **

The Alan November video titled **Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classrooms** @http://vimeo.com/3930740

Board of Education Powerpoint Presentation 1.12.10 titled **Designing School for the 21st Century**



The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has published ICT Maps in the curriculum areas - ICT Literacy Maps

Here's the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) definition of 21st Century Literacies NCTE 21st Century Literacies

And from the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Beyond 2000: Science Teachers Speak Out

And from the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies

From Eschool News, What Every 21st Century Educator Should Know

Carolyn Shilinski shared this incredible video - The Thrilling Potential of Sixth Sense Technology

by the way, if you don't yet know of it "TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: **Technology, Entertainment, Design.** Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize." TED

Ideas, imagination,. . . It's worth exploring!

Check out this visual - "Digital Blooms" Found on this website: []