thing #5

Web 2.0, what does it mean? To be honest it means stress, headaches, and a lot of extra work. Or so I had thought. After reading the articles on web 2.o I can see what an advantage it is going to be as a teacher and as a student. Web 2.0 means knowledge and plenty of it. And that doesn’t mean it is all just one point of view or one example. It means that there is plenty of good and useful information out there for us to gather. The challenge we now face is to find information that will be useful to us. A lot of the information out there will be false. We must teach our students how to identify the information that is correct and that which has no facts to rely upon. Web 2.0 allows for us to have more information at our fingertips and allows for us to share what we know as well.

School 2.0 allows for our students to use this new information and new sources to gather greater information. School 2.0 will integrate all the great things that web 2.0 has to offer. Someday technology will be almost impossible to live without and school 2.0 will allow for students to be prepared for that.

Someday schools will be more focused on teaching students how to gather information from places like Wikipedia or peoples blogs to use as reliable information. The school will show how to gather supporting information for resources gathered here rather than just refusing them as research. I believe one day notebooks and pencils will nearly disappear except on special occasions. Once into higher grade levels I believe that laptops and tablets will be used more than paper and pencil. I look forward to this day I know that it is coming and I want to help guide a generation of learners into the great knowledge we have yet to see.