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I'm a high school teacher using computers to teach English every day. I've been teaching 1:1 in a BYOD Public High School since 2010 but it still feels pretty new to me. Like [|Darren Kuropatwa], I feel like I live in perpetual Beta (∞ß), and I doubt that this adventure will ever get old.

**Taking the plunge and trying new things is exciting, and sometimes scary too**. I teach at [|Dakota Collegiate in Winnipeg] where over 1100 students in grades 9 through 12 are required to bring their own computers to classes every day. Pretty awesome, and fun too! I have been learning how to teach in a 1:1 school since just before I started this site, in the Spring of 2010.

You may wonder..."**//So, what changes when every student has a computer in class?//**" Here is the shortest accurate answer: we can all do more with the tech in classes than we can without it. We can learn more, try more things, meet more people, and yes, we can play more as well. But who said playing is a bad thing? Here are three links that have helped us as we become a "Bring Your Own Device" school. Manitoba's [|Literacy with ICT] continuum has helped us, and so has the [|21C Fluencies]project spearheaded by Ian Jukes and the good folks at [|Committed Sardine].

Anyways, this is a place to try and //**s - l - o - w d - o - w - n**//, because the pace of this change is so fast that I worry that I'll live it out without recording anything to reflect on later, and I know I'll need to reflect on this!

Thanks For Looking In, Roy

Here is the best way I've found to pull together links and have it look good too: [] I bet this looks good and works well on a tablet- another excuse for a bit of shopping. ** The "Can" Synectic- 21C Learning **

media type="custom" key="7703955"media type="custom" key="7725649"media type="custom" key="7725691" Three Wordles I made to compare three models of 21C Skills: 1-Ian Jukes, 2-Metiri, and 3-P21C

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