Web 2.0: How have the Internet and learners changed and how can education respond? Jason Neiffer Helena Public Schools 07-08 Learning Academy

The Foundation: Montana State Tech Standards Originally written in 1999 Up for revision in 2008 (involving two HPS teachers) Key notes: HPS adopts standards through curriculum Obligates classrooms to cover topics as media literacy, media ethics, new communication

Originally written in 1999

Up for revision in 2008 (involving two HPS teachers)

Key notes:

HPS adopts standards through curriculum

Obligates classrooms to cover topics as media literacy, media ethics, new communication

Other Standards International Society for Technology in Education Student Standards (new in ’07) Administrator Standards Teacher Standards

International Society for Technology in Education

Student Standards (new in ’07)

Administrator Standards

Teacher Standards

Standards Commentary Changing Definition: Standards are not just desktop computers and content databases!

Changing Definition: Standards are not just desktop computers and content databases!

The “Old Internet”: A Visit to the 1990s

Source: “Commodore 1985 Commercial,” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_f3uIzEIxo

Source: “Microsoft Commercial – 1995,” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=kv96_rZTMkM

Source: “AOL Commercial – Homework” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SVXqvrFtOM

Source: “AT & T Commercial – Walkin’ After Midnight,” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=4AK0qq6ivOE

Jason’s Innovative 1998 Classroom Links? Woo hoo! Source: Jason Neiffer, “Civil War Links,” 1998, http://www.chs.helena.k12.mt.us/wwwassignments/neiffer.htm

Links? Woo hoo!

Chief Consideration? Content What is the Internet? or

Today? The Technology and Our Learners have Changed!

Some research… The newest generation of the Internet (Web 2.0) “represents a fundamental revolution in communication no less important or transformative than the invention of the Guttenburg printing press.” (Fryer 2006) Source: Wesley Fryer, “Welcome to Web 2.0,” March 26, 2006, http://www.wtvi.com/teks/web2/

The newest generation of the Internet (Web 2.0) “represents a fundamental revolution in communication no less important or transformative than the invention of the Guttenburg printing press.” (Fryer 2006)

What direction are we headed? 2007 Horizon Project Report Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years

One year or less

Social Networking

User-Created Content

Two-Three Years

Mobile Phones

Virtual Worlds

Four-Five Years

New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication

Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

What students are telling us… Source: “MyLine: Talkback,” The Free Land-Star, 11 December 2007, http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/122007/12112007/340199

So, What is Web 2.0?

The Evolution of Information: The Machine is Us/ing Us (2007) Source: Michael Welsh, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” 2007, http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Web 2.0 Defined From Web 2.0 tool Wikipedia: "In studying and/or promoting web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.” Source: “Web 2.0,” Wikipedia, 7 January 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

From Web 2.0 tool Wikipedia: "In studying and/or promoting web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.”

Source: Luca Cremonini, “Web 2.0 Map,” December 2006, http://www.railsonwave.it/railsonwave/2007/1/2/web-2-0-map

Comparing Old and New reading  writing companies  communities html  xml home pages  blogs portals  RSS taxonomy  tags wires  wireless owning  sharing web forms  applications dialup  broadband Source: Joe Drumgoole, “Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0,” 29 May 2006, http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10/

reading  writing

companies  communities

html  xml

home pages  blogs

portals  RSS

taxonomy  tags

wires  wireless

owning  sharing

web forms  applications

dialup  broadband

Web 2.0: The Internet is Application Rich

Google Docs: Office Apps

Web 2.0: Easy Web Publishing/User Generation Conflict

Blogging: “WebLogs”

Blogging Platforms

Multimedia Publishing

The Next Frontier: Live Streams

Web 2.0: Collaboration

Wikis

Web 2.0: Social Networking

The Infamous and Others

Web 2.0: Folksonomies

Tagging and Social Networking Combined

Tag Clouds: What is important?

Web 2.0: Mashups: Using Content from Different Sources in New Ways

RSS Feeds: New Age Information Management

Mashups!

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