It’s a Web 2.0 World – Engage, Interact, Learn, Publish! Cindy KendallKendall ConsultingWilliamston, MI

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Face to face, theater, museums, books, newspapers, magazines, telegraph, morse code, TV, radio, mailCommunication has evolved. A myriad of interpersonal, interpretive, presentationalTime, networks (people and hardware), access, ability to create contentChat, instant messaging, multimedia messaging, videoconferencing, email, online videos, online encyclopedias, facebook, myspace, club penguin, webkins, photosharing, blogs, wikis, mashups, web-based multimedia creation, websites, podcasts, vodcasts, tags, keywords, iTunes, multi-player synchronous games, blackberries, 24/7, iTunesU, BitTorrent file sharing, GPS, Linked-In, micro-blogging, Google

Are we preparing students for this world?Sell to and buy from the worldWork for international companiesWork with and perhaps manage employees from other cultures and countriesCollaborate with people all over the world in joint venturesCompete globallyServe locallyThe U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs … By the age of 38.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . . In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.- David Warlick

For what kind of world is schooling preparing students?

In what world are our children living?MessagingFacebookasocially connected,GoogleWikipediainformation-rich,Web 2.0content creating,Customizedcommunity

A few statisticsMost teens are online: 91% have an e-mail address, and 60% have an instant-message screen name. Nearly three-quarters have a cellphone, and 72% have profiles on social networking sites.Although teens say they recognize the dangers of sharing personal information online, they do it anyway. One in four teens say they know someone who had a bad experience because of information posted on the Internet.Many teens say their parents are clueless: 40% tell their parents very little or nothing about what they do online.

Kids are connected, but…“Don’t swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens facebook, IM, and YouTube, don’t assume they know the rhetoric [and practices] of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation – and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.”-Howard Rheingold, 2009

Literacy “Literacy has always been about using the most powerful cultural tools available to make and communicate meaning. At the present, those tools happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics, sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If we or our students don't know how to critically use these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive potential, then we—and they—are illiterate.” -Jeff Wilhelm

And the theorists and research support creating meaningful content…SeymourPapert – ConstructivismGeorge Siemens – ConnectivismIvan Illich – DeschoolingLev Vygotsky – Zone of Proximal DevelopmentRand Spiro – Cognitive Flexibility

Creating new content is a key to understanding. Everybody creates. So find opportunities to create with content!

If we want kids to buy in to what we are selling them, we have to ….Make it engaging and allow creativityGo to where the kids areCreate a relationship and a community

Today we are going to explore ways tocreateSharecollaboratepublishconnectinfluence

Let’s get a quick glance at what tech we use today….http://tinyurl.com/azla-survey

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Community You need a candy jar to hold your candyA community enables its participants to make connections and actively engage by-Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?Forming relationshipsGrowing knowledgeFinding efficiencyCreating value

CommunityWikis & Blogshttp://ckendall.wikispaces.comPresentations - AZLA

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