Matthew Daniel's List: Web 2.0 and Collaboration

• • Interesting the the pioneers in this field, i.e. Wesch and Rheingold, are new to the teaching profession. Shows the difficulty of stubbornness with experienced teachers who are set in the mould.
• the power of every desktop computer or smart phone to function as a worldwide printing press, broadcasting station, market, community center, political organizing tool. Students will develop skills that are directly relevant to their personal development and their place in the world after graduation, but the price for learning to use the Social Media Collaboratory for collaborative inquiry is a serious committment of time and attention by every member of the learning group.

• If print culture shaped the environment in which the Enlightenment blossomed and set the scene for the Industrial Revolution, participatory media might similarly shape the cognitive and social environments in which twenty first century life will take place (a shift in the way our culture operates). For this reason, participatory media literacy is not another subject to be shoehorned into the curriculum as job training for knowledge workers.

• Students everywhere, enrolled or not, have free access to content and interactive instruction, as well as to networks of people with similar interests, enabling them to collaborate in the construction of knowledge and to learn at their own pace.
• Open high-quality content and instruction can set standards of practice and, because of their quality, transparency, and availability, help improve the practice of teaching and learning throughout the world.
• OER advocates believe that it will become a vibrant part of the educational and social fabric of the world. Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University, argues for the Web to be an open commons; if some people are restricted from knowledge while others are not, creativity will be constrained and inequalities heightened
• The Internet will change dramatically over the next decade as it incorporates such emerging technologies as geo- and semantic mapping, speech recognition, artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, and techniques that immerse learners in virtual worlds that engage multiple senses. The opportunities for influencing learning and teaching will expand dramatically. The power of OER to increase access and to allow use and reuse should both enhance and be enhanced by these innovations.

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• • "Most hate school, but love learning, why is this? What's the problem here?"

  • Wesch discusses his frustrations with current educational practices, and how technology is not a problem but a tool to be used to engage students in meaningful inquiry. He describes the net as an infinite cloud of information that we must guide our students through, teaching them to navigate, analyze information and answer real problems.