GroupD

Please add your group's responses to the prompt:

**We must___**
Group D

We need to educate ourselves re student choices and uses regarding the web.

Educate ourselves and then our students re validity, ethics, appropriateness of what is available on the web. We could use more professional time to explore and learn about the opportunities available - for example, this morning showed a wealth of sites, uses, etc and to find similar opportunities in our own discipline seems like an overwhelming challenge. The one-on-one collaboration between teachers can be a great learning opportunity. We need to look at more examples of successful online collaboration.

Teach students how to form and navigate through relationships that are made solely online. What is the new definition of "relationship"? What is lost by forgoing the face-to-face nature of the classroom? How do we strike a balance between the inside and the outside of our classroom? How do we ensure the environment is a safe as well as educational one? Are we interested and willing to lose the part of teaching that we love – the interaction between and among the students around us?

If we are savvy with the tech that our students use, we can strengthen the relationships we have with our students. We need to give up some of our autonomy to gain a greater autonomy.

We need to make chances of what and how we teach – we need to model the appropriate use of what is available. If everyone makes one small change, how different the experience can be for our students.

If acquisition of content no longer defines “success” – how do we change our definition of success in our classroom?