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16 Apr 09
Why Web 2.0 is Important to Higher Education -- Campus Technology
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It still amazes me that people (educators) feel that "web 2.0" tools are just hype. In it's simplest form YOU ARE USING IT RIGHT NOW IN YOUR COMMENTS! The ability to read something online and post immediate feedback was a first step in Web 2.0 development (e.g., Amazon reviews, etc. 10 years back). You inherit a web voice by being able to comment all over the web, thus adding CONTENT to the web. If you, as an educator, don't incorporate some forms of Web 2.0 tools into your lessons, curriculum, online lear
Why Web 2.0 is Important to Higher Education -- Campus Technology
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Culturally speaking, with the advent of Web 2.0, the "traditional classroom" with one speaker and many listeners is now an oddity, a throwback, a form that should represent 15 percent of undergraduate interaction with faculty, not 85 percent as it does now. With so many ways to create knowledge now very rapidly and collaboratively, we are freed from the necessity of a singular approach to teaching. It no longer makes sense. If you are a faculty member and you are still walking into the classroom with a lecture in mind and "the points to cover," as I did for many years, you are living in the past, a past that is now obsolete. Granted, your job is easier and the students love it if you just talk, but do you feel right about what you are doing?
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The new textbook is student work; I'll say it again: The textbook of this age is the work that students generate under your guidance and within your design.
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20 Mar 09
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