Sunday, November 4, 2007
How do you see Web2 changing/impacting education?
Web2 is a much more interactive online experience than the traditional web. The traditional web gives you information and lets you use that in whatever way you choose. However, there is no real way to interact with and edit/modify that information. Web2 gives users the opportunity to add their own knowledge and experiences, and make this information public to other users. In the educational setting, Web2 can be used to help students take control of their learning experiences and add to it anything they would like. For example, my students just began responding on our classroom blog. I have made this web address public to the families of my students, in hopes that they can share what their children have read, and even reply to comments their child has posted. It is also my hope that soon I can have a section of the class blog devoted to parents, in which they can respond to discussion questions that will help inform and aid my teaching. And for those parents that live or travel outside of the US, they can still monitor their student's learning. For one of my students, seeing her mom (currently in China) comment on what she has posted as a learning experience will make it clear that her mom continues to be actively involved in her learning and well-being. I would like to use Web2 to help my students interact with students in other parts of the state or world. Being that my students live in a very wealthy area, I would enjoy seeing them interact and share learning experiences with those whom live in a more poverty-stricken area. For example, I could work to create a wiki in which we interact with students of a school in Louisiana, whom we helped out, post-Katrina. It would be a valuable experience for us all to see how income, location, and other experiences can affect learning. I would also enjoy seeing my students gain more culture and understanding, through the process of interacting with similar age students around the world.
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