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**Session Description**
Unlike other professions, education seems rooted in methods and tools of the past century. We will look inside an elementary classroom that is moving towards a changed pedagogy that utilizes blogs, wikis, video-conferencing, digital photography, video, and much more. See how this award winning class of at risk students embraces these new literacies to communicate, collaborate and learn with students, teachers and experts globally. Then we will explore these powerful applications ourselves, and learn how to leverage them to truly modernize our classrooms and make our students active, engaged learners.

You will learn
 * 1) You will learn why and how to utilize these powerful new learning tools safely to positively impact student learning and engage your students.
 * 2) You will learn about the changing definition of being literate in the 21st century, and how to leverage these new literacies to develop active, motivated learners.
 * 3) You will learn how to make your classroom a modern, collaborative and connected learning environment, where students hone their communication skills and build their personal learning network.

Presenter Bio: Brian Crosby, Sparks, NV
Brian Crosby, an elementary teacher for 28 years, teaches grades 4, 5 and 6 in Sparks, Nevada, has infused technology into teaching since the 1980’s. While piloting a 1:1 laptop program, students in his class utilize many Web 2.0 tools including Skype, Fiickr, blogs and wikis. He has won an Apple iLife Award, the 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Award, Reno Film Festival Award, Lumierre Film Festival Award, WCTA Distinguished Educator. Promethean ActivBoard Teacher of the Month, He has been published in eSchool News, Google Blog, and has been the subject of several magazine articles. He is currently co-authoring a book about blogging in the elementary and middle school classroom.