web 2.0 - 2007 version
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Web 2.0
Why teachers should care.2007 Version
Evolution of the Web
Web 1.0 - originally content creation by few, static pages, digitization of existing knowledge
Web 2.0 - now content creation by many- about conversations, collaboration, control of content by few gone, mass participation
Mindset and Expectations
Web 1.0 Surfing Browsing Consuming
Web 2.0 Connecting Collaborating Creating Sharing
Mindset and Expectations
Web 1.0 Surfing Browsing Consuming
Megabytes of published test and photos
Web 2.0 Connecting Collaborating Creating Sharing
Gigabytes of shared audio and video
Mindset and Expectations
Web 1.0 Surfing Browsing Consuming
Megabytes of published test and photos
Passive consumption
Web 2.0 Connecting Collaborating Creating Sharing
Gigabytes of shared audio and video
Active Participation
*by Philip Fierlinger at turntable.com
Some Facts
From Riding the Waves of Web 2.0, Pew Internet Project
Today’s Students
Are IMing, blogging, YouTubing, Photobucketing, Flickring, and MySpacing instead of doing homework (or while their doing it).
Googles first, doesn’t ask questions – Libraries have fast access to Google
Today’s classroom
Too similar to yesterday’s classroom Biggest use of tech in classroom –
PowerPoint Learning is now bigger then classroom,
teachers - info available any time (MIT, Stanford – free courses)
Don’t give them ttools they use at home, need to be competitive
Teach Different
The time is now - we have new challenges Traditional reports, assignments no longer
relevant (purchase papers, Wikipedia) We need to teach them how to collaborate,
search, critically cull through info, assess bias, act appropriately and professionally online
We need to teach them how to learn – using our content, but the skills are probably more important, valuable to the student in the long term.
Why?
They are doing it – informally 70,000+ education blogs 25+ million kids creating content online
(New York Times) The world is changing, No American
Left Behind, The World is Flat
How?
Teach them digital literacy, how to acquire what they need in a sea of information
Let them do something with the info they gather - change it, analyze it
Make some things student centered, constructivist
Give ownership to them – more buy in
No Really, How?
Get them producing and interacting online in an education setting
Some places to start: Blogs Wikis