What I learned at ADETA

I learned

1. Kids don't like school, but they like learning
2. Dr. Alec Couros, Dr. Norm Vaughan and Mr. George Siemens have some real insight into Social Networking tools in learning. Using collaborative tools like Facebook, MySpace, Google Docs, Wikis, Delicious.com, and Blogger.com, kids are creating shared knowledge and making a difference. There's a bit of an evangelical purposity towards using these tools in learning. Lurking mode might be the starting point - create some accounts and see.
3. If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less…
4. For the most part, kids understand when they are distracted...
5. Reflective thought - what is the society that we are preparing our students for?? Is it the society that we live in or the one that is being created and where does the responsibility lie? or at least how much of it lies in education?
6. Students are public by default and private when necessary.
7. Teachers need to be aware and make good decisions about how they use them and how their students use them. Since teachers are not an instant banking machine of dialog (are you up at 4 am??) kids should know through coversation what's reasonable.