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| They must gain experience in downloading a podcast, adding comments to someone else's blog, editing or refining information in a wiki, chatting with a colleague or guest expert online, or enrolling in an online class. conference keynote speaker Discounts would also be a plus. In such a problem, fictitious colleagues might then make suggestions on where to go on the Web or what to search via e-mail. And with ever present access, why bother? As trends toward such forms of assessment indicate, the skills needed today have shifted from memorization of facts and details to the ability to interpret, analyze, organize, summarize, and manage such information. In a 2006 keynote address at the e-Learn Conference, Susan Patrick, President and CEO of the North American Council for Online Learning said that the future would demand people Despite the need for such skills among instructors, a November 2006 report on media literacy from Cable in the Classroom revealed that most schools-some 60%-failed to place enough emphasis on media literacy.
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