web20-0708-thoughts


 * Web 2.0 Introductory Thoughts**


 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U - Do You Know 2.0?
 * This is the "messy technology"; there is no one right fit for all teachers and there is no start/end point (much like the tools themselves).
 * This may be the hardest but most important set of tools to use.
 * I don't think web 2.0 is an educational-pendulum-research-political-policy-flavor-of-the-week; it's a societal, business, and cultural progression. We in education aren't creating it (like NCLB for example), we're trying to effectively respond to it.
 * New way of thinking for all of us...including me who was admittedly a bit dubious of web 2.0 at first.
 * To understand and comprehend web 2.0, participation in web 2.0, at some level, is important.
 * With time at a premium, using one tool is awesome and even more so when students work harder than the teacher.
 * Web 2.0 can be directly aligned to help achieve the NJCCCS (and do well on assessments).
 * The donuts and cookies are near the window. Please help yourself.
 * Collaboration is a big part of web 2.0, collaboration is a big part of work and life now.
 * The World is Flat (a la Thomas Friedman)
 * I'm almost finished; please hang in there.
 * Literacy today is more than reading, writing, and math...it involves gathering, processing, analyzing, synthesizing, and presenting information as well as communicating and collaboration (web 2.0, 2007)
 * "With manufacturing now barely a fifth of economic activity in rich countries, the 'knowledge economy' is becoming more important" (__The Economist__, October 13, 2007)
 * Web 2.0 tools and collaboration are essential for learning the knowledge economy.
 * The only way out, he insists, is 'to learn the tools of innovation' and forge entirely new, knowledge-based industries in energy technology, biotechnology and other science-based sectors (Curtis Carlson, head of California's Stanford Research Institute, quoted in "The Age of Mass Innovation" appearing __The Economist__, October 13, 2007).
 * Additional Resource - http://openhistoryproject.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Media_Pedagogy
 * Additional Resource - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&NR=1
 * http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=51482&page=2 - Top Five (Ten) 2008 Ed Tech News Stories
 * http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=51522;_hbguid=2d059a60-7877-4119-949b-20e90d76e90e (Technical Support Key to Technology Adoption)

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