Overview of Web 2.0 Tools and Online

Instruction

Barbara TreacyOctober 2008

The World is Changing!

What is Web 2.0?Use the Internet to

Create/Communicate/Share/Collaborate

Web 1.0: “Read-Only” Web 2.0: “Read-Write”

Today’s Students

“Digital Natives” - Mark Prensky http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008 Use and expect technology to be everywhere

Skilled multi-taskers Embrace online communities and social networking

Regularly create content using technology

Today’s students

Still need instructors to:Facilitate learningDevelop higher order thinking skills

Help all students succeed

21st C learning = student centered learning

“By 2019 about 50 percent of high school courses will be delivered online.”

What’s Different About Teaching Online Structure of curriculum Use of multiple communication methods and tools

Social dynamic and learning environment Pace and structure of discussion facilitation

Assessment strategies Technical challenges Teaching with technology is a given!

From Web 2.0 to Learning 2.0We see shifts: from consuming to producing from access to information to access to people

from “learning about” to “learning to be” from “one size fits all” to passionate learning

from presentation to participation from publication to collaborative creation from formal schooling to lifelong learning from “supply-push” education to “demand-pull” -John Seeley Brown “Minds on Fire”http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0811.pdf

Advice to educators

Learn About Web 2.0 Lurk Participate Create More Content Teach Content Production Make Education a Public Discussion Help Build the “New Playbook” -Steve Hargaddon “Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education”http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

Thank you

Barbara Treacybtreacy@edc.org

EdTech Leaders Onlinehttp://edtechleaders.org

Education Development Centerhttp://edc.org