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		<title>What leadership looks like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott McLeod of the Dangerously Irrelevant blog has declared today, July 30, 2010 as Leadership Day 2010. He’s been doing this for three years now, and each year I’ve participated with a post.

2007 –  Leaders of the Future where I focused on developing the leader in every learner.
2008 – Just Do It where I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/07/30/what-leadership-looks-like/</link>
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		<title>Amazing speaker lineup for TEDxRedmond, all youth ages 10-16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TEDx Redmond is shaping up to be a great event!
Generation YES is a proud co-sponsor of this first ever TEDx event created, planned, and run by youth for youth under age 16. TEDx Redmond will be held September 18, 2010 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond WA.
Check out this list of speakers, all accomplished young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/07/27/amazing-speaker-lineup-for-tedxredmond-all-youth-ages-10-16/</link>
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		<title>Tinkering and creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Tinkering talk at ISTE (slides coming soon!), I shared the French word for tinkering which is &#8220;bricolage&#8221;. It&#8217;s a great word because it doesn&#8217;t just mean tinkering, it also carries a connotation of playfulness, art, and using found objects. Those French certainly have a way with words!
I especially like how Sherry Turkle, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/07/25/tinkering-and-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Do you sleep with your cell phone? Pew Study on Millennials</title>
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Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials &#8212; the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium &#8212; have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.
They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They&#8217;re less religious, less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/07/23/do-you-sleep-with-your-cell-phone-pew-study-on-millennials/</link>
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		<title>Project-ing Tech Literacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More reaction to the new whitepaper Assessing Technology Literacy: The Case for an Authentic, Project-Based Learning Approach (Read more or download PDF)
From Education Week:
&#8220;A new whitepaper addressing recent calls for technology literacy education argues any such education should involve project-based learning, while a separate new report indicates the need for such education may soon increase. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/07/06/project-ing-tech-literacy/</link>
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		<title>The ISTE opening keynote &#8211; what I wish had been said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know  this is not fair &#8211; Monday morning quarterbacking what someone else said in a keynote. I respect people who keynote, it&#8217;s a very difficult job to be entertaining while delivering a coherent, interesting message for a large, diverse audience. I cringe when people criticize, yet here I am doing it.
I did a quick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/06/28/the-iste-opening-keynote-what-i-wish-had-been-said/</link>
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		<title>ISTE opening keynote &#8211; global issue networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final countdown to ISTE 2010, Denver, Colorado (June 27-30) has begun! Thousands of exhibitors and attendees will descend on Denver this weekend to learn about the newest applications, strategies, and issues surrounding technology education. The conference formally kicks off with the opening keynote Sunday night, June 27, at 5:45. This year’s opening keynote speaker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/06/24/iste-opening-keynote-global-issue-networks/</link>
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		<title>New &#8211; Technology literacy whitepaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we are happy to announce the release of a new whitepaper written by Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, with Cherise A. Hodge, M.Ed. and Mary W. Sepelyak, M.Ed. Dr. Becker is an expert researcher in achievement and equity effects of educational technology and curriculum development.
Assessing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/06/21/new-technology-literacy-whitepaper/</link>
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		<title>The war on children&#8217;s playgrounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Children rise to risk,&#8221; says Joan Almon, executive director of the U.S. Alliance for Childhood. &#8220;Give them some genuine risk and they quickly learn what their limits are, and then they expand their limits.&#8221; The problem is: If kids never encounter even tiny risks, they never develop that thing we call common sense.
via The war [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/06/17/the-war-on-childrens-playgrounds/</link>
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		<title>Update on Maine Learning Technology Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The post Students raising funds and technology awareness in Maine got a lot of comments and interest on this blog. Here&#8217;s an update from one of the participants:
First of all, our students are committed to this project! All of our students in Wells, Maine, had to get out of bed and to the school bus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/06/16/update-on-maine-learning-technology-initiative/</link>
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