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=**Welcome to the Kulm School District Wiki!**=

The purpose of this wiki is to assist Staff and Students at Kulm learn about Web 2.0 tools.

Please take the time to read this [|blog post by Jay Cross]. It will get you thinking about what we are doing in education today.

Excellent presentations to get us thinking about what we are doing in education today! media type="custom" key="2727781" media type="custom" key="2695219" || **Introducing Web 2.0** media type="custom" key="2707237" media type="custom" key="2760235" || Something to think about from [|David Warlick.] Lack of time is the barrier to retooling classrooms that I zero’ed in on. The teacher-day is virtually unchanged from the classrooms I attended in the ’50s and ’60s. Think of lawyers, surgeons, or even farmers. Do they spend all of their time in front of juries, in operating rooms, or in the fields. No! An important part of their job is research, collaboration, reflection, resource development, and professional development. Now think of factory workers, who spend all of their time on the assembly line, installing parts. And think of teachers, spending all their time with students on a conveyor belt, moving through kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, while we install math on them, reading, science… Education is still an industrial age institution, trying to address information age problems. This is a tough one, but, as you publish information about your schools, and take pictures of teachers on the job — include lots of pictures of teachers researching, collaborating, engaged in professional development, liaising with the community. These are all critical elements of being a teacher today. We have to get that message out there.
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