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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.

Net Generation. It also provides many websites where you can find tools to be used with students. It also lists valuable resources and email groups for those that would like to work with others. It also has websites where you can find projects to complete with students. || Mary Hoffman || Profile, Gloria H. ||
 * **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 ||
 * Educating the Net Generation || A 14 slide PowerPoint on skills required to educate the net generation || This powerpoint gives a nice overview of skills required to reach the net generation || Joe S. ||
 * [|Teaching the Net Generation] || An article with many links on ways to educate the Net Generation || This site is full of information and ideas on how to educate the Net Generation. It also has many links to other artiles with other ideas and concepts for educating this generation. The other interesting part is the list of common misconceptions and conflicting data about the Net Generation that it discusses. || Chrissy Kirk ||
 * Educause || There are fifteen different topics all related to educating the Net Generation || This site has articles on many topics from the student's view to staff development all pertaining to education the Net Generation. ||  ||
 * [|WiZiQ] Educating the Net Generation || A 29 slide presentation describing the Net Generation and tools for teaching. || This site has a presentation that gives characteristics of the
 * [|Five Dimensions] || Interesting South African article-- five dimensions to educate the Net generation. || Ties together and reinforces our other readings. Reminds us of student differences and how we need to change our approaches. || Mary Louise H ||
 * [] || Great article about video games and the connection to science!! || This article discusses how easily we can connect science and video games and also calls the video game creators to bring more educational components to the gaming industry rather than putting the whole responsibility on educators. || Gloria Herlihy
 * Teaching the Net Generation: Strategies & Skills || This is a great article describing the unique learning needs of the Net Generation and offering suggestions on how to teach today's learners. || This article describes two technology-based teaching strategies in great detail: web quests and simulations. The article defines each teaching strategy and explains how to organize them, providing examples. || Rachel S. ||
 * [|Computer Games "motivate Pupils"] || An article about the benefits of video games to education || This article discusses the benefits of video gaming to education. It talks about the skills acquired and used during gaming and how they reflect skills needed in the real-world. || Shannon M ||
 * A Five Dimensional Model for Educating the Net Generation || Paper that discusses how educators may be empowered to "rethink their educational strategies." || What I found interesting about this article is that tries to find the similarities between the teachers and the net generation students in their classrooms. The article is based on research done in South Africa, however, they too, are faced with a curriculum that is changing and outcome-based education. || Shirley LeClerc ||
 * [|Resource for educating Net Generation] || Discusses both characteristics of the Net Generation as well as shaping workforce through Web 2.0 || This site not only speaks about the Net Generation but also covers other topics we are studying in this course. || Jennifer Collicott ||
 * [|Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation] || An article with a lot of information and data on the Net Generation. || This article provides a nice overview of the Net Generation and provides some helpful teaching strategies and methods geared toward the Net Generation || Phil Bushre ||
 * [|Learning Styles of the Net Generation] || For those visual learners: 9 minute video through YouTube that takes you through the styles of the Net Generation: Interaction, Exploration, Relevancy, Multi-Media, and Instruction || I enjoyed how the presenter compared/constrasted a Boomer Classroom to what a Net Generation classroom should look like in order to reach the students and use technology effectively. The presentor also suggests that teachers today get think outside of curriculum-based approaches and instead take a project-based approach when instructing students. || Stacy Kusko ||
 * [|Impressing the Net Generation] || This article hits on various technologies that Net Generation students use. It also has a section about looking ahead. || First and foremost, this article is easy to read with interesting formatting. Being as this is a class about technology being interesting to students, it must also be interesting to the teachers. It provides an overview of technology. My favorite part is the part about what's ahead. I am always interested in what's new so that I can try to prepare myself. || Erica Blass ||