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The video, 3 Steps to 21st Century Learning, mentioned 3 points: Competition, Cooperation, and Collaboration. My initial thoughts on these were: Competiton- yes we are in a competitive world with how much knowledge our students know. How our students obtain and are able to retain that knowledge is important and technology can make a big difference in how we get that accomplished. Cooperation- not only do educators have to cooperative but so do parents and administrators with the 21st Century skills needed to make our students be at the top with their knowledge! Collaboration- not only do students need to collaborate on projects and assignments, but we all need to collaborate to get things done so that the 21st Century CAN happen!

I found "Media and Informational Literacy for Educators" overwhelming with all of the info and links provided on this website. However, I did learn what Media Literacy was.... anyway to access, analyze, evaluate, and create info in a variety of media formats including print and non-print. Hopefully with what we are working towards with the 21st Century grant, kids will receive the skills to get this info. I really liked the 'teachers' section off to the left side of this website. It was exciting to see what other teachers and classrooms are doing on the web! I got some ideas of what to do in my classroom with technology! This is one website I will bookmark for the future to refer to and check out even more!!! For example, one class had a webpage and on that webpage were some of the powerpoints that students had done! That's what I like...IDEAS!

The ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Literacy website was another great tool for ideas! Whew! Loaded with ideas!!!! Is this what were headed to for future standards???? The whole time I have been involved with this grant, i keep wondering "How am I going to do this??" Well, this gave me so idea! however, the first instinct is to want to jump right into this and just do it! But I think that taking things slowly and in baby steps will be the ticket. After all, we don't even have all of our equipment yet!

The last website, Information Literacy, focuses on the Library media specialist and his/her role in 21st Century learning. One thing that caught my eye was the 'School library Media Program and NCLB' brochure explaing the school library's media specialist's role in helping us to meet NCLB. UMMMM! Excuse me, but with all of the budget cuts in education, those were the first to go! And now we have one library media specialist that goes around to all of our schools in our district. So, our students only see our media specialist one day a week for 15 minutes! Now tell me, what else can she do in 15 minutes but check out books!?!