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 * Prerequisite Skills Inventory Courtesy of Robin Nahas**



//“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”// – Steve Jobs, Businessweek, 1998

**For your consideration:**
//Using Technology of Today, In the classroom Today: The Instructional Power of Digital Games, Social Networking, Simulations and How Teachers Can Leverage Them//- The Education Arcade, MIT, Eric Klopfer et. al, 2009

"Undoubtedly, without these recent technologies (i.e. digital games, Web 2.0, etc.) in the classroom, strong lessons can still be achieved, but there’s a sharp disconnect between the way students are taught in school and the way  the outside world approaches socialization, meaning-making, and accomplishment. It is critical that education  not only seek to mitigate this disconnect in order to make these two “worlds” more seamless, but of course also to  leverage the power of these emerging technologies for instructional gain." Read the whole paper below:



**Have you heard of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants?**
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