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Scanning through Flickr photos, tagged or described with byron, mn, I’m left with the conclusion that the town has a zoo. Or else it is the wildest place I’ve visited. There are wild turkeys, elk, foxes (or coyotes), otters, and bison. There was evidently, in the early days of the town, a bear that lived near by. Hence, the Byron Bears.
It is a pleasure to be in Byron today. I love working in the mid-west. It’s where people have always cared enough about education to build beautiful school buildings for their children. Today, we are tasked with building a new education system — because we find ourselves preparing our children for a world of rapid change, within a dynamic new information landscape, and children with learning skills we only barely understand.
Today, I’ll be presenting some ideas about what it means to be literate in today’s largely networked, digital, and info-abundant content environment. What it means to be a reader, processor of information, and communicator today are issues that must be re-examined, and I will sugggest that we start by converting the 3Rs to the 3Es — along with a 4th E.
I will also provide some context for our students’ information habits by exploring one of the influences as the heart of their outside-the-classroom information experience — video games. We will look at the nature of video games, what we know about them in terms of their education, examples of some interesting games, some of the spin-offs of the video game experience and culture, and some additional ways of looking at this issue as educators.
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