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David Warlick and Sara Armstrong made this statement recently in Technology and Learning magazine, "The challenge to us as educators lies in keeping up with an information environment that has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, a decade during which the very nature of information has changed in appearance, location, accessibility, application and communication" (The New Literacy: The 3Rs Evolve into the 4Es, 2004, 25:2). If this is true - and I personally believe it is - in what ways do you see the manifestation of this change and what, in your opinion, do we need to do in our classrooms?

Arthur C. Clarke has a great quote: "We need to educate our children for their future, not our past." Although I agree wholeheartedly with these words, I also view them with a bit of consternation - because implied in this quote is the idea that "we" must know more than our own past and be able to envision the future of our students.  This is what good teachers have always done - but today, when things change so rapidly, it becomes a challenge to our creativity, our imagination and sometimes our perseverance! 

So, welcome to our blog - where I want you to be able to imagine, be creative, persevere and be able to see what all the hype is about with blogging.  I want you to be able to experience it yourself - formulate some questions - and hopefully answer them to your own satisfaction!  Is blogging the "next big thing?"  Is blogging changing our communication in fundamental ways?  Is a new counter-culture growing and being supported through blogs?

Blog on!