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Sunday, June 22, 2008

A Vital Part of the Learning and Technology Equation



  • Our schools need passionate, caring, and visionary leaders - not JUST technology » Moving at the Speed of Creativity


    A great blog post from Wesley Freyer about the need for leadership NOT just technology.


    tags: technology, vision, leadership, teaching, web, 2.0



Posted by Edwin Wargo at 5:47 AM
Labels: fryer, leadership, speed of creativity, teaching, vision, wargo, web 2.0

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