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NECC highlights tech's 'transformative' power
Jul 16, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: NECC

Transformation and collaboration were the central ideas of the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, which kicked off June 29 with a call to fundamentally change education and continued with several other sessions that repeated this theme.

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