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Complete a web search on topics surrounding educating the Net Generation.

In the table below add at least one link to a resource that you found particularly helpful. Include a description of the link and explain why you feel it is helpful. Include your name and a link to your profile. The first two entries are given as an example.


 * **Resource name/title & link** || **Description** || **How or why this resource is helpful** || **Submitted by** ||
 * Route 21 || "...a one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and community tools." || This site offered a list of the skills needed by 21st century learners. There was a really great diagram here that illustrated the skills and linked to descriptions of what 21st century instruction should look like. Also, there are a lot of resources for teachers/educators such as presentations and podcasts || ChrisC ||
 * Slideshare || Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar, || This site is full of education related presentations. || GinnyS ||
 * [|Teaching Today] || This is an article that gives some good tips for how to adapt your teaching in order to accommodate the Net Generation. || This site has much more than just tips for teaching the Net Generation. It has a section that you can browse by topic and also weekly teaching tips. ||  ||
 * [|Adapting] || This article discusses ways for teachers to adapt their teaching styles to the Net Generation's way of learning. || The website is from the Online Journals of Issues in Nursing, however, this site was helpful in that it discussed how the Net Generation is an interactive culture that is centered around 10 board themes. In addition, the article discusses ways we can adapt our teaching styles for the Net Generation. || AliciaL ||
 * E-book || This document has a many links to educate the Generation. || Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. || Michael H. ||
 * Tech & Learning || Techlearning.com is a project of Technology and Learning Magazine, the Well Connected Educator, and the SchoolTech Expo. The site is dedicated to ideas and tools that help teachers use the Internet in the classroom. || This site is full of helpful tips and ideas. The main page has tabs that can take you to many other useful pages. Check out the tab labeled: Best Practices. || Amber F. ||
 * [|Out-Educating the Competition] || President Obama speaks at Intel about encouraging education and technology. He believes educating children will enable America to compete in a global market. || This particular video encourages teachers and businesses to invest in education because the students of today will help to shape our future. Math, Science and technology will help to keep our country on the cutting edge. President Obama reviews some initiatives to help our students gain knowledge in these areas and increase our ability to compete with other countries. || Courtney A. ||
 * The Net Generation are not big users of Web 2.0 Technologies || This article gives the preliminary findings of researchers that show the the net generation uses a large variety of technologies, but does not use Web 2.0 technologies as much as people think. || This site is helpful because it gives research on Web 2.0 tools and their use by the net generation. It also lists and describes the various forms of Web 2.0 tools. || Michael P. ||
 * [|Norms and Characteristics of the Net Generation] || This website give characteristics, graphs, and more helpful information about net generation students in the workforce. || This website compares all the generations and how they fair in the work place. It also gives the norms and characteristics of the Net Generation || Allie P ||
 * [|The Digital Generation Project | Edutopia] || This video shows the excitement of students using digital learning in the classroom. || It has many ideas of how to use digital learning just by watching the video as well as supporting the ideas of educating the Net Generation. It's great to watch! || Patti S. ||
 * [|Innovate] || Journal of Online Education article about Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation || As young people continue to be at the forefront of technological change, educators will continue to evolve their learning around technology. Today's digital and computer technologies will give educators the tools to teach the Net Generation. || Joni P ||
 * [|PBS Teachers/Digital Media Literacy] || The website has a variety of components designed to help teachers understand today's youth (ages 8-18) and digital media literacy. || This site provides an overview of digital media literacy and a quiz for teachers to test their knowledge of the impact of media and to evaluate their own use of digital media in the classroom. The site also provides practical resources and ideas to integrate digital tools into the everyday classroom. || Julie B. ||
 * The Future of Mathematics || Examples and strategies for using technology in math lessons. || This website was created to demonstrate how technology can be used to teach math and meet the needs of the Net Generation. This site gave examples of how to use technology specifically with mathematics, other than just math software. It is hard to find ideas that relate using technology with mathematics. || Nichole K. ||
 * [|Tutorials for Teachers] || Tutorials in plain english for tings like podcasting, digital storytelling, blogging, etc in the classroom. || Half the battle with incorporating technology in the classroom is knowing how to use it as a teacher. Sure, I know what a podcast is, but how exactly do I make it and how do I use it appropriately in school? This site helps answer those questions. || Rebecca S. ||
 * [|A Look at the Technology Culture divide] || An article that explains about the Technology Culture and how to the Technology Divide that exists between generations. || This article gives a brief description about who the Technology Culture is and how teachers who are not from that culture can learn about them and how to handle their needs within their classrooms. || Brian H ||
 * [|GlobalClassrooms] || Dedicated to 21st century education giving teachers curriculum help as well as prof. development opportunities. || This site is focused completely on educating students in the 21st century and moving towards the "global classroom" where students are connected to other classrooms all over the world. It provides curriculum links as well as many professional development opportunities designed to educated teachers to equip them to educate the Net Generation. || Kate B. ||