Steve Hargadon, Vicki Davis, Lucy Gray, Karen Greenwood Henke, Rushton Hurley, Leigh Zeitz
Audience uses: collaboration, Google Docs, Animoto, Flickr, del.icio.us, voicethread (very popular),
http://www.necc2008.org/forum/topic/show?id=1997968%3ATopic%3A11028
What is web 2.0? How important is it?
- Web as platform (like travelocity–the OS is irrelevant)
- Harnessing collective intelligence (like Wikipedia, collaboration and competition among many individuals–primarily for ideas)
- Wisdom of crowds–(like YouTube, the recommendations you get after you select a video)
- Data as the “intel” inside–(like Amazon, systems take in data by users to give you more information)
- End of the software release cycle (like Google, where everything is Beta and refinements are constantly made and instantly updated everywhere)
- Loosely coupled systems (like Netvibes–mashups where data is combined in many ways with other data
- Software beyond a single device (like Facebook–not tied to a particular machine or device–you just need to login to access your stuff)
- Rich user experience (like Swivel–customized, individualized but also social)
Web 2.0 is active rather than passive. Read/write web. Enables students.
Barriers
- Inappropriate content (instead of teaching students how to cope)
- Teachers want to see a working model before they try in their classroom
- Fear of failure by teachers
- Fear of being first
- Computer is used a babysitter in many schools and that’s what they see computers purpose as
- Students doing inappropriate things on school equipment
- Lots of schools block the network access
- Parents are fearful and pressure school not to do
Students need to learn by doing. Use filtering system that allows flexibility.
Important shift (may be similar to invention of printing press in changing the world). Democratic. These tools are transformational. But how are schools responding?
Teacher needs to connect to other teachers doing the same type of things or interested in accomplishing the same or similar things. Teachers need to use whatever it is themselves. They need to talk to administration. Then start working with students.
EdTechTalk
Twitter–need to experience to understand why useful
Pick one thing and focus on it to start.
Trying to bring “in” 2-3 experts into every class (university professor). Model how can be done and encourage them to do. Use Skype, iChat, GoogleTalk, etc.
These tools can motivate students. Don’t be afraid of failure.
Google Docs has lots of features including survey tool.
Kids are doing:
- Blogging in vetted community/closed community
- Ning for posting digital creations and critiquing each other’s works
- Wiki centered classroom paired with a Ning
- Wiki used for everything (university professor)
Check this out: http://www.nextvista.org/
Guaranteed–will not be able to keep up with emerging technology.
Ning is a smaller social community.
Wikis are more versitile than blogs. Ning is for first person opinions. Wiki is facts, organized and referred to later. Should be polished in wiki. Wiki is structured information. Ning is about evolving conversation.
Investigate DOPA. Federal government proposal to withhold funding for schools who have opened social networking tools.
Moodle used. Elgg. Look for open source solutions as well.
