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Today's students will enter a job market that values skills and abilities far different from the traditional workplace talents that so ably served their parents and grandparents. They must be able to crisply collect, synthesize, and analyze information, then conduct targeted research and work with others to employ that newfound knowledge. In essence, students must learn how to learn, while responding to endlessly changing technologies and social, economic, and global conditions.
 * Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods** //Cooperative learning and inquiry-based teaching yield big dividends in the// //classroom. And now we have the research to prove it.// by Brigid BarronLinda Darling-Hammond

Several Tools for Video Conferencing: Bring Experts into our Learning Studios
//from Free technology for Teachers// Bringing experts into your classroom via video conferencing can be an excellent enhancement to your students' learning experiences. Video conferencing can also be used to connect classrooms in a 21st century version of penpal exchanges. [|Skype] is the most common tool for making these connections and for good reason [|Skype] is the most popular video conferencing application. It's easy to use and free for most uses. The only drawback to [|Skype] is that you and the person you want to talk with must have [|Skype] installed on the computers you are using. The following

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