Nancy Blair's List: Perspectives and Opinions

Question: Will Web 2.0 be an integral part of K-12 education? If we assume that the best predictor of the future is the past, then the answer is "no." Web 2.0 is new, but the structure and assumptions underlying its use and benefits, as outlined by Steve Hargadon in this forum, are not new. At the heart of Hargadon's vision - and Michael Wesch's - is the collaborative student project, and this idea has been prominent in American education since 1919 ...

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Web 2.0 opinion projects education hargadon PBL pedagogy on 2009-07-26 and saved by 43 people

I have to start this by saying that I am an unabashed disciple of Michael Wesch, who's participating in this forum, and the methods he demonstrates so vividly in his videos. I didn't start out looking for any guru but encountered Wesch's videos while I was struggling myself, as a novice educator, with the institutionalized boredom of my students and their constant absorption in their laptops during class. Before I got to Wesch's notion of a crisis of significance, I had probed my students about exactly what was going on with them, and it was clear that they had been bored for years.

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The new classroom is about information, but not just information. It's also about collaboration, about changing roles of student and teacher, and about challenges to the very idea of traditional authority. It may also be about a new cognitive model for learning that relies heavily on what has come to be called "multitasking." Many educators voice ambivalence about the power of educational technologies to distract students and fragment their attention.

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Very thought-provoking article that compares the introduction of the slate into classroom practice to the integration of technology in today's classrooms.

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opinion technology slate on 2009-07-16 and saved by 46 people

Good reminders.

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creativity habits students on 2009-07-25 and saved by 36 people

Interesting perspective; the comments are very interesting.

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PLN building collaboration on 2009-07-25 and saved by 7 people

Answers questions/responds to beliefs about copyright laws.

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copyright laws rules social media on 2009-08-06