The thing that struck me most about about School 2.0 is how some of it is already happening, especially in our district. Now I know we are a very lucky school district with administrators who are very supportive of emerging technologies. But, not all districts, families, communities are as fortunate as we are. Maybe we are ahead of the game as far as being connected with our students, parents and communities, or we just have "really good people" that get the word out and convince school administrators, parents and the community on how important it is for the future of our students and economy of our communities, state, nation to have all these wonderful learning experiences.
One of the things that kind of bothered me about the map was the shifting of text book dollars to digital. I think it is important to have both. Yes, books and their information can become obsolete. Take for example a history or geography book where governments change and so do boundaries of countries. In the digital format things can be updated so fast and probably at fraction of the cost (considering the cost of text books for a class).
All in all, it will change. We will be looking at this new School 2.0 in the very near future.
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I agree it is already happening in Hilton, with the help of our tech people. I especially appreciate how they continue to help us get "time" to work on things. I'm not opposed to digital money because there are very few good textbooks for my subject, Family and Consumer Science. It would help to be able to have variety to resources.
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