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Web 2.0 Tools and K-12 Challenges : February 2009 : THE Journal
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While it is important to recognize a legitimate body of knowledge and to train
students in that knowledge, if we do not develop students who can think
critically, challenge existing parameters, and creatively and innovatively plan
new designs, new projects, pose new questions, etc., we not only fail to use the
available technology effectively, but more importantly, we fail to develop the
kinds of students who are being looked for by employers and ultimately society
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the kinds of skills required in today's workplace and higher education fields of
study are transferrable and global and more complex. - 2 more annotations...
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Web 2.0 Tools and K-12 Challenges : February 2009 : THE Journal
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Learning How To Manage Content
Students who can learn how
to look for helpful information and organize that information into meaningful
content are developing knowledge management skills that are vital to future
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Knowing what to look for
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Web 2.0 Tools and K-12 Challenges : February 2009 : THE Journal
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In other words, students, regardless of their technical ability, still require
teachers to be hands on with their instruction and informative about various
higher level skills that they will need to be successful higher education
students and employees. -
One such skill is collaboration--not to be confused with cooperation. While
the latter is a useful skill as well, developing collaborative skills is
something very desirable for future employers. That is, students who know how to
evaluate a problem or situation; assess what information and resources are
needed and what others have and can contribute to the challenges; maximize all
of the resources and build on what is available to meet and address; and,
hopefully, solve the problem or challenge posed.Parts of this process are cooperative and critical to the overall success;
however, the latter stages of maximizing what is available and/or "known" or to
explore and gather additional information and resources and to build on those is
ultimately the full success of collaboration.
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Web 2.0 Tools and K-12 Challenges : February 2009 : THE Journal
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Steve Hargadon argued, however, that most of the current students already use
these tools, and, while their parents may still be in a Web 1.0 world, students
use Web 2.0 social networking tools and other authoring tools regularly. He continued:"But I believe there are more positive, less alarmist, reasons. In fact, I
think the inherent characteristics of Web 2.0 are so aligned with significant
educational pedagogies that we are going to have to dramatically rethink our
educational institutions and expectations because of them. Even though the
benefits of Web 2.0, like those of a liberal-arts education, resist easy
assessment methods and therefore present a challenge to how we measure
educational success, I'm optimistic that they will ultimately prove so valuable
as to require that we rethink teaching and learning."
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OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes
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I supposed that if I had really looked I could have found a lot more. The point
is, there is a discipline of 'new literacy' (or whatever we'll call it) forming,
and it is composed of elements such as the examples that are being shown here.
Education in this new literacy can - and must - replace the naive memory-based
retention-based fact-based text-and-test model of education that has dominated
for the last century or so. As I stated at my talk in Melbourne, one of the
problems we had over the last century was that it was too easy to get
students to learn things, to remember things - too easy to persuade them, too
easy to convince them, too easy to march them into prejudice and war
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