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The Information AgeThe Web 2.0 and its Impact on Students and
Education
Why did I choose technology?TechnologyInternetSocial mediaWeb 2.0Impact of all of this on educationTechnology is itself a topic, but more
importantly, is a vehicle for all other topicsMy rationale, personal impact, and global
impact
Web 2.0 in the ClassroomWikisBlogsSocial networking
USER GENERATED CONTENT
Gatekeepers of KnowledgeAncientGutenbergMartin Luther / The ReformationIndustrial RevolutionTechnological Revolution
Information Revolution / AgeWill affect people from all cultures, religions,
and languages
Old InformationWe are in the revolution right now
The creation, organization, distribution, and ownership of information itself is changing
Aristotle’s CategoriesDewey Decimal SystemCategories, hierarchies, file systems
New InformationWeb 2.0 Folksonomies – Folk TaxonomiesTOP DOWN TO BOTTOM UP CONTROLThe people provide new content and organize
the content as they see fit
HyperlinksTaggingThe “cloud”Collaborative intelligence
Human BrainPeople refer to it as a folder or a filing
cabinetPeople think it uses a hierarchy to organize
information
The Real Human Brain
So we are in a Revolution, now what?We need to understand that our students
experience the world and express themselves in complete different ways than many of us are accustomed to
A Vision of Students TodayA Vision of K-12 Students Today21st Century PedagogySocial Media Revolution
Native Language of our StudentsDigitalThey get their information on screensTechnology, social mediaText more than they talk, text the person next
to themTeachers need to speak in their native
technology without using their native language – text, twitter, and blog without talking like a 14 year old
Reactionary BacklashThe Atlantic – “Is Google Making us
Stupid?”Short answer: No.Over 75% of people believe that the internet will
enhance human intelligence – essentially making us smarter (Choney, 2010).
Immediate access to unlimited informationAll information searchable from a variety of
angles and keywords – no one entry pointFocus shifted from memorization to analysis and
creationIsn’t that our focus as educators? And this is a
bad thing?
A Common Sense Response3M Corporation's Sandra Kelly illustrates my
point: “smart people will use the internet for smart
things and stupid people will use the internet for stupid things in the same way that smart people read literature and stupid people read crap fiction” (Choney, 2010).
THE INTERNET IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT, JUST LIKE LIFE – THE ONUS IS ON THE USER (AND THE TEACHER!)
The Global CitizenA focus of our SOEA reality on the webhttp://translate.google.com/#http://babelfish.yahoo.com/Google finalizing technology to enable real-
time conversation between people speaking different languages
Internet and Web 2.0 will tear down language and cultural barriers, ushering in the global citizen
How can I use this in the classroom?SMART boardsDigital projectorsDigital CamerasLaptops and tabletsClickersWebquestsPowerPointsWikisBlogs
BloggingWeb-loggingWriting on the internetJournalingEasiest transition for the traditional
teacherwww.wordpress.comwww.blogger.comhttp://edublogs.org/Commoncraft’s explanation of blogging
TwitterMicroblogging – limited to 140 charactersCommoncraft’s explanation of Twitter
Teaches brevity, succinctness, clarity
Tweeting a self-contained storyEach student adding to one story collaborativelyEach student could construct their own story over timeStudents could submit observations from an
experimentStudents could write summaries and main ideas
ConclusionPut this “fad” into perspective.Facebook users added per day – 750k-1 millionTwitter users added per day – 300kFacebook posts/shares per day – 35 millionTweets per day – 50 millionThere are more tweets now than there are people.
What happened during this presentation?10k people joined Facebook and Twitter. There were 430k
tweets.
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Choney, S. (2010). Internet making our brains different, not dumb. Retrieved from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35464896/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
Folksonomy. (2010). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy Internet map. (2010). Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg Kolowich, S. (2010). Should colleges start giving Apple’s iPad to students? USA
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Schulten, K. (2010). What would your favorite fictional character tweet? New York Times. Retrieved from http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/what-would-your-favorite-fictional-character-tweet/
Web 2.0. (2010) Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0