We live in a world where the only internet our students know is Web 2.0. I have often heard the word Web 2.0 (we have a list of Web 2.0 websites in our C I 556 notebook), but I never really knew what it meant. In this article, Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students? By John Thompson, it states Web 2.0 as being a read/write medium whereas Web 1.0 is only a read medium. This makes sense. When I was growing up you could only look up websites, never add to them. Today, we live in a world full of social networking. Students are constantly posting on such websites as Facebook and Myspace. Even some research sights such as Wikipedia can be added to by anyone. As we start teaching our students are going to get more and more technologically advanced. So how do we teachers make sure we are good ‘leaders’ for our students? Well, we need keep up with the technology, which Web 2.0 is a big part of. This article is aimed more for higher education, but it is important for all ages. Students as young as pre-school are using the internet. But besides our students just using the internet, we can incorporate Web 2.0 into the classroom. There are multiple websites and programs and blogs and social networking. As long as technology and the web are upgrading constantly, we as teachers need to stay on top of things!
Thompson, John. (2007). Is Education 1.0 Ready for 2.0 Students? Accessed June 22, 209 from Journal of Online Education. 3(4). Website: http://innovateonline.info/index.php
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Wow, I really had no idea what web 2.0 meant, thank you for sharing this article. I find it very interesting, I guess that I never thought about how the web has changed over the years. I am hoping to be using technology and the internet with my future preschool students.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you looked into this topic, I learned a lot! I hadn't heard of web 2.0 until this class and I didn't really think to much of it when we started looking at the different sites, I had visited them and used them not even knowing they were web 2.0;-)
ReplyDeleteIf you get the chance you should type Web 2.0 tools into a google search, and a vast amount of different tools and websites will pop up. Its really neat, and you can find a lot of tools to use in your future classroom.
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