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Discussion 1  "The learning tools of this century and probably this millennium are not print-based. That world and all its assumptions about permanence, authority, and scarcity are gone. It is no longer the authority lecture but the conversation that is the emerging norm. The new textbook is student work; I'll say it again: The textbook of this age is the work that students generate under your guidance and within your design." - Trent Batson, "Why is Web 2.0 Important to Higher Education?"

This will be our first discussion topic. Your response to the above quotation from Trent Batson will serve as "practice" for participating in the discussion boards, a major component of this online flex training. In order to receive full flex credit for this session, you will need to enter TWO postings on each of several discussion boards throughout this session. The first is usually a reply to our question. The second is usually a reply to the posting of one of the other people taking this session.

Discussion boards appear automatically on every Wikispaces page, which really is a great feature of these web sites.

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After posting, you must REPLY to at least one of the postings of others who are taking this session. This is done by clicking on the other posts to read them, then typing your reply in the fields below their posts.

If you are among the first to reply, you won't have many options to fulfil your requirement of replying to at least one post. If that is the case, feel free to move on to the next part of this session, but remember to come back, as it is expected that you post at least one reply to another's post, as well as to our question.

If you have any questions, please email:

Scott: swindesp@npenn.org Brett: bakerbg@npenn.org