McMahon Tech

This Blog is an attempt by Colonel Killackey and Peter Sommer to discuss various issues within the idea of 21st century learning. We want to display the tools that will help us better communicate with students, manipulate content and the thoughts on process that will be changing our profession. We encourage any and all from the staff to send questions, ask for help, suggest resources, and author posts.------------ "It is not that the world will change, it already has"

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Digital Literacy

Train the Leaders in digital literacy...Train the Mentors in digital literacy....Literacy has always been dependent upon the available technology (printing press all the way to iPads). Helping kids (and teachers) to "Geek Out". Developing teachers mentoring teachers, student's mentoring students, students & teachers mentoring each other in digital media...Take a look at what they are doing here (7 minutes) ...

Here is a Podcast (19 minutes) on Defining Digital Literacy and Libraries...

"Thinking Outside of the Box" and leveraging technology to develop 21st century learning expectations...all require new skills and competencies. Old Dogs & New Dogs, learning new tricks. How trainable are you?

Monday, February 11, 2013

McMahon's Tech Blog - a first step

In talking to my good neighbor Colonel Killackey the last few months, we agreed that some form of communication be created to talk about technology for our building educators. Equally important would be the ideas that can go with it. This is our first attempt to see if we can bring our community together. Today, to get things rolling, I will leave you with this... (JP Sommer)