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