Google Wave developer presents...

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web-coming soon.
This video is a long one....but most enlightening!!
I suggest you download it only if you have plenty of speed and downloads available.

What is a wave?

According to Google:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

IT Curriculum 2.0 Wiki

How does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century? Embedded IT needs to change.

Watch this video presentation and consider:

"For the first time in history, our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we cannot clearly describe. Technology (cell phones, computers, the internet etc.) is as familiar to the youth of today as the television and radio was to the generation before them."

"A new literacy has emerged and with it comes a brand new set of skills, responsibilities and challenges. It is time to rethink the role that information technology plays in schools and transition from disconnected entities to partners in learning."

"Learners must be given opportunities to solve problems creatively, work alongside others, and develop their own understanding of the world."

"In order to answer the Essential Questions for the 21st Century Learner, students will need both technological and non-technological knowledge, understanding and skills.
Technology skills will be learned in school by students in the same way it is learned “in the real world”: as they need it." Curriculum2.0 NewLiteracy

Are you ready for this new literacy? 21stCentury Literacy