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How does your school/district currently support and or encourage collaboration between teachers? How much do you seek to collaborate with teachers and how do you accomplish this? To what extent do you think collaboration is of growing importance for teachers seeking to implement a 21st century classroom?
 * Philosophically, our district supports collaboration. In practice, in my opinion, much more time needs to be made available for teachers to group and collaborate. Definitely, professional development, like the class we are taking now, does foster collaboration between teachers.
 * Most of the time I run to peers for their know how, especially when it comes to technology. I have not actively been involved in a collaborative situation with any peers with regards to developing projects or advancing my own skills specifically in terms of technology. The best I admit to is taking advantage of professional development which has been taught by my peers or sharing informally my knowledge.
 * The tools we are working with in this class demand interaction via technology; we are in contact with members of our group through tech. From everything we have been exposed to, it is apparent that collaboration is the key to individual and collective advancement; without collaboration within school staff, we fail to learn and practice what we purport to teach. Collaboration between teachers needs to be expanded if not explosively embraced.

In what ways, if any, do you see the thoughts in this article applying to student conversation?
 * It is much easier to teach what you practice than teach some isolated, undigested idea or theory. If I deliberately and actively engage and benefit from peer collaboration, it will be much more authentic for me to preach and teach the advantages and benefits of collaboration.


 * The article does show the reality of infinitesimally incremental steps forward as the norm in public education. As much as technology has exponentially changed our world, the classrooms remain rather static because change is difficult to accommodate and expensive for most school districts.


 * Again, the article shows the power of one to initiate change, and this course provides moles to move back into the system and begin working towards overall change.


 * __8.3 Innovation in Education__**

//"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew//." **Abraham Lincoln**

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media type="custom" key="10097143" Under the Discussion Tab, I posted first my definition and reaction to the Lincoln quote and then my reaction to the Robinson Ted.Talk about revolution. I did try to post and save a couple of times and thought I might have not saved appropriately.