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04 Dec 09

Goldens Beauvais

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-that it is a platform upon which content is not only consumed but also created.

07 Nov 09

Diane Albanese

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04 Nov 09

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09 Sep 09

Donna DeGennaro

The title of this post is a watered-down version of my typical opening. Normally I would say, Web 2.0 is the future of education, and while I harbor a hope that will be true, I think it might be more accurate to say that Web 2.0 will be a significant part of the future of learning, and that in the best case scenario it will become an important part of our formal educational institutions.

30 Aug 09

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15 Jul 09

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My personal definition of Web 2.0 is not complicated. With an appropriate nod to Tim O’Reilly, who used the phrase originally in a business context, I’d like to suggest that for the sake of our discussions around education that Web 2.0 is simply the use of the Internet as a two-way medium- - -that it is a platform upon which content is not only consumed but also created. For my generation, our use of the Web largely mirrored our experiences with print and broadcast media: we were the audience, and a select few were the creators (this would be Web 1.0, if you will). For my children and our students today, their use of the Web often entirely revolves around content that they and their friends have created, and within Web frameworks or scaffolding that facilitate that creativity rather than providing the content for them. They build profile pages, upload photos and videos, and interact with each other and that content through active commenting systems.

Web 2.0, defined this way, is facilitating a dramatic change in our relationship to information. The advent of printing press lowered the cost of producing written material, and Web 2.0 not only brings that cost now to essentially zero (anyone in this country can go to a public library and use a computer for free and with free software publish to the web), it is also bringing the nature of information publication as a conversation to the user who used to just be a part of “the audience.” While most of us watched those conversations taking place between trusted authorities or authors before in a world of broadcast media, we are often now immersed in them ourselves.

14 Jul 09

ajeschke Jeschke

change in our relationship to information.
2.0 not only brings that cost now to essentially zero
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- Web as a conversation
- becomes an educational imperative to teach ourselves and students to be productive participants in those conversations
- teach the creation of
- nswer to information overload is to create (
- most of our students are already actively involved in this content creation and conversation outside of school.
- dramatically rethink our educational institutions and expectations
- Web 2.0 instead seems likely to change education precisely because it is a disruptive external change.
- Engagement.
- engage students because of the authentic nature of the work rather than being required assignments.
- very real audiences
- real test: are they
- communicating well?
- contributor to world’s body of knowledge.
- can find specific intellectual paths to tread where they are able to participate,
- backbone
- openness.
- making obsolete many of the restrictions on access to
- information
- world’s knowledge doubles in short periods of time, the incentives or rewards for keeping information proprietary
- significantly diminish,
- collaboration is
- given real practical value to a character trait
- not only king, but it can be seen and assessed–look at the history page of a wiki,
- linked list of
- unparalleled ability to build or participate in personal learning networks and communities of interest or practice.
- in the midst of the greatest increase of creative capability in the
- istory of the world.
- online portfolio of the endeavors they are passionate about. Where the resume and the degrees have been our short-cut indicators of abilities and accomplishments, the personal body of work now contained and hopefully organized on the Web gives everyone who wants it the the opportunity for an expression of personal interest and achievement.
- thoughtful discussion.
- great features of
- discussion forum, which provides an environment for learning how to actually talk about things.
- often becomes much more thoughtful in the context of a discussion forum.
- contribute to discussions after class
- broader opportunity for participation
- rewards the proactive learner and contributor.
- needs students who have learned to participate actively and independently.
- “spirited” child
- much more likely to be able to work on things she likes and is good at because of her willingness to be proactive.
- ast amount of data on the Web
- more critical thinking
- ong-time educators
- own personal learning transformed
- Having ready access to information does not make one a scholar, but it is scholars that we must help to create.
- ime and training
- legal liabilities
- don’t come with a manual
- take time to build new “playbooks.

12 Jul 09

Stephanie Affield

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12 Apr 09

Matthew Daniel

Author argues Web 2.0 will usher in a new era in education as teachers take hold of the reins of the technology, accepting things like social networking programs that have previously come with a negative stigma because of a lack of adult influence and supervision. Makes comparison with printing press, but as results have been slow to surface, we will take this opportunity to re-write the book on education which will yield the real success.

’d like to suggest that for the sake of our discussions around education that Web 2.0 is simply the use of the Internet as a two-way medium- - -that it is a platform upon which content is not only consumed but also created. For my generation, our use of the Web largely mirrored our experiences with print and broadcast media: we were the audience, and a select few were the creators (this would be Web 1.0, if you will).
For my children and our students today, their use of the Web often entirely revolves around content that they and their friends have created, and within Web frameworks or scaffolding that facilitate that creativity rather than providing the content for them. They build profile pages, upload photos and videos, and interact with each other and that content through active commenting systems.
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- The advent of printing press lowered the cost of producing written material, and Web 2.0 not only brings that cost now to essentially zero (anyone in this country can go to a public library and use a computer for free and with free software publish to the web), it is also bringing the nature of information publication as a conversation to the user who used to just be a part of “the audience.”
- While most of us watched those conversations taking place between trusted authorities or authors before in a world of broadcast media, we are often now immersed in them ourselves.
- eb 2.0 technologies for learning, students ages 11 - 16 were surveyed. 74% reported that they had at least one social networking site account and 78% reported having uploaded pictures, video, or music to the web–with 50% having done so in the previous week of being asked
- most youth are participating on the Web without the benefit of much guidance or mentoring from the adults who are most interested in their progress and well-being.
- So, if for no other reasons than we might muster to justify driver’s education in schools (learning to do something very important that carries some inherent and significant personal and social dangers), we can argue for the need to be teaching Web 2.0 as a part of K-12 education
- engagement of Web 2.0 is in the act of content creation
- Authenticity
- Students today are creating on the Web for very real audiences, and their writing or production has to pass a very real test:
- Participation
- actually being a contributor to world’s body of knowledge
- Openness and Access to Information.
- Web 2.0 is making obsolete many of the restrictions on access to information that were intended to protect the rights of creators, but instead mostly inhibited learning by others
- Collaboration.
- Creativity
- write, film, and edit a video which then can be uploaded to YouTube
- Passionate Interest and Personal Expression
- online portfolio
- Discussion
- provides an environment for learning how to actually talk about things
- contribute to discussions after class, or from home, provides a much broader opportunity for participation that the traditional class discussion. Students with different contribution styles, or who process information over time, are now more participative.
- Asynchronous Contribution
- Proactivity.
- ut the world has changed, and employers want and the world needs students who have learned to participate actively and independently
- Thinking
- The vast amount of data on the Web requires more critical thinking than was needed when I was growing up.
- Critical
- ABOUT CROWS
  
  by John Ciardi
  
  The old crow is getting slow;
  
  the young crow is not.
  
  Of what the young crow does not know,
  
  the old crow knows a lot.
  
  At knowing things, the old crow is still
  
  the young crow’s master.
  
  What does the old crow not know?
  
  How to go faster.
  
  The young crow flies above, below, and rings
  
  around the slow old crow.
  
  What does the fast young crow not know?
  
  WHERE TO GO.
- First: we’ve developed a negative cultural impression of social networking that comes out of the very power that will makes it such an effective tool for education. Fundamentally answering a human need to connect, create, and express ourselves,
- Third: Teachers will need time and training to learn to use these tools in the classroom,
- Fourth: the legal liabilities that schools face because of concerns about a) student exposure to inappropriate material and b) exposure of students to potential predators will not be easy to overcome.
- We’re long overdue for a really good discussion about the purpose of schools, and I believe that Web 2.0 will give us that opportunity

05 Apr 09

Jennifer Mastalka

Web 2.0 in K-12 Education

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11 Mar 09

Diana Ramey

My personal definition of Web 2.0 is not complicated. With an appropriate nod to Tim O’Reilly, who used the phrase originally in a business context, I’d like to suggest that for the sake of our discussions around education that Web 2.0 is simply the use of the Internet as a two-way medium- - -that it is a platform upon which content is not only consumed but also created. For my generation, our use of the Web largely mirrored our experiences with print and broadcast media: we were the audience, and a select few were the creators (this would be Web 1.0, if you will). For my children and our students today, their use of the Web often entirely revolves around content that they and their friends have created, and within Web frameworks or scaffolding that facilitate that creativity rather than providing the content for them. They build profile pages, upload photos and videos, and interact with each other and that content through active commenting systems.
What is abundantly clear is that no matter what our schools are currently doing, most of our students are already actively involved in this content creation and conversation outside of school. In a series of reports recently released by BECTA (the government agency leading the UK drive to ensure the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning) on Web 2.0 technologies for learning, students ages 11 - 16 were surveyed. 74% reported that they had at least one social networking site account and 78% reported having uploaded pictures, video, or music to the web–with 50% having done so in the previous week of being asked. If we make the somewhat logical assumption that most parents are still living in a Web 1.0 world (largely passive consumers of content created by others) , then whether we see the Web as a dangerous collection of minefields or as an unparalleled learning environment, most youth are participating on the Web without the benefit of much guidance or mentoring from the adults who are most interested in their progress and well-being.

05 Mar 09

casey mayfield

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03 Mar 09

Phil Taylor

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02 Mar 09

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28 Feb 09

Peggy George

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24 Feb 09

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06 Feb 09

June Breivik

education that Web 2.0 is simply the use of the Internet as a two-way medium- -
-that it is a platform upon which content is not only consumed but also created.
For my generation, our use of the Web largely mirrored our experiences with
print and broadcast media: we were the audience, and a select few were the
creators (this would be Web 1.0, if you will). For my children and our students
today, their use of the Web often entirely revolves around content that they and
their friends have created, and within Web frameworks or scaffolding that
facilitate that creativity rather than providing the content for them. They
build profile pages, upload photos and videos, and interact with each other and
that content through active commenting systems.

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31 Dec 08

Sharon Gallagher

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then whether we see the Web as a dangerous collection of minefields or as an
unparalleled learning environment, most youth are participating on the Web
without the benefit of much guidance or mentoring from the adults who are most
interested in their progress and well-being.
Hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, have been spent on outfitting
schools with computers, and most of us would appropriately claim that the impact
on student achievement has been little to none.
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- relatively divorced from teaching methodologies, and either not in a quantity or
  in a condition to allow overworked teachers to change their teaching methods.
  Driven not by technology vendors or unproven theories, Web 2.0 instead seems
  likely to change education precisely because it is a disruptive external change.
- Having ready access to information does not make one a scholar, but it is
  scholars that we must help to create.

18 Dec 08

Rhonda Morrissette

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15 Dec 08

Oscar Duarte

The Web as a Conversation

09 Dec 08

Lino Oliveira

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04 Dec 08

Brea Nolder

The title of this post is a watered-down version of my typical opening. Normally I would say, Web 2.0 is the future of education, and while I harbor a hope that will be true, I think it might be more accurate to say that Web 2.0 will be a significant part of the future of learning, and that in the best case scenario it will become an important part of our formal educational institutions.

02 Dec 08

Omar Alvarez

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Elizabeth Bagish

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07 Nov 08

Marcia Philbrick

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04 Nov 08

Jay Fogleman

A description of "Web 2.0" and its potential educational benefits. Do you see these supports as needed?

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26 Oct 08

Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

The title of this post is a watered-down version of my typical opening. Normally I would say, Web 2.0 is the future of education, and while I harbor a hope that will be true, I think it might be more accurate to say that Web 2.0 will be a significant part of the future of learning, and that in the best case scenario it will become an important part of our formal educational institutions.

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I think it might be more accurate to say that “Web 2.0 will be a significant part of the future of learning,” and that in the best case scenario it will become an important part of our formal educational institutions.

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John Larkin

Steve Hargadon sets out how "Web 2.0 will be a significant part of the future of learning, and that in the best case scenario it will become an important part of our formal educational institutions".

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