Prof.+Dev.+Resources

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**Professional Conferences to Watch for**

 * [|ISTE 2010 (formerly known as "NECC", National Educational Computing Conference)], Denver, Colorado, July 2008
 * [|Building Learning Communities], Newton, MA, July 2010
 * [|Learning 2.0]: Shanghai, China, September 2008
 * [|K - 12 Online Conference], November 2009
 * Conference 2.0: Be a part of the backchannel chat on all Educational Technology conferences around the world (created by [|Steve Hargadon])
 * [|HitchHikr]: Find out about, and keep up with, with all the Educational Technology conferences around the world (created by [|David Warlick])

**Professional Reading**
Here are a selection of books to 21st Century Literacy, constructivist teaching, and collaborative, project-based learning:
 * Anderson, Chris, [|The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More], Hyperion 2006.
 * Friedman, Thomas L., [|The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the 21st Century], Penguin 2005.
 * Howe, Neil, [|Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation], Vintage 2000.
 * McKenzie, Jamie, [|Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn], FNO Press 2005.
 * November, Alan, [|Empowering Students with Technology], Corwin Press 2001.
 * Pink, Daniel, [|A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future], Riverhead Books, 2005.
 * Richardson, Will, [|Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms], Corwin Press 2006.
 * Warlick, David, [|Raw Materials for the Mind: A Teacher's Guide to Digital Literacy], The Landmark Project, 2005.
 * Warlick, David, [|Redefining Information Literacy for the 21st Century], Linworth Publishing 2004.

Articles and websites about 21st Century Literacy, constructivist teaching, and collaborative, project-based learning:
 * Apple: [|Digital Tools for Digital Kids]
 * Armstrong, Sara and Warlick, David, [|The New Literacy]
 * McHale, Tom, [|Portrait of Digital Native], Tech Learning
 * Pew/Internet Report: [|The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools]
 * Prensky, Marc, [|Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants]
 * ====Munro, Susan; O'Brian, Mary Utne; Payton, John W.: [|Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits Of Working Together]====