How have the Internet and learners changed and how can education respond
1. Web 2.0:How have the Internet and learners changed and how can education respond? Jason Neiffer PROTECS Summer 2009
2. Technologies I am using today… PowerPoint 2007… trusty! YouTube/YouTube downloader… my favorite is http://www.kickyoutube.com, however, it has been down occasionally lately AirMouse Jing … screenshot capture ShareTabs … easily share a number of websites with groups 2
3. 3 The Foundation:Montana State Tech Standards Originally written in 1999 Revised in 2008 Key notes: Most school districts adopts standards through curriculum Obligates classrooms to cover topics as media literacy, media ethics, new communication New standards push Web 2.0 technologies as critical
4. 4 Other Standards International Society for Technology in Education Student Standards (new in ’07) Administrator Standards (new in ‘09) Teacher Standards (new in ‘08)
5. 5 Standards Commentary Changing Definition: Standards are not just desktop computers and content databases!
14. 14 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/
15. 15 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
16. 16 But that is already dated…2009 Horizon Project Report Technologies impacting education in the next 5 years Mobile computing (duh… ) Cloud computing “Geo-everything” The Personal Web Semantic-web… tools that adapt to what you are doing Smart objects
17. 17 What students are telling us… Source: “MyLine: Talkback,” The Free Land-Star, 11 December 2007, http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/122007/12112007/340199
19. 19 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
20. 20 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
22. 22 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/
44. 44 Understanding the technologies themselves! Source: Ian Shapira, “When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web,” 28 April 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702213_pf.html