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The Information Age The Web 2.0 and its Impact on Students and Education

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The Information AgeThe Web 2.0 and its Impact on Students and

Education

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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

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Web 2.0 in the ClassroomWikisBlogsSocial networking

USER GENERATED CONTENT

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Gatekeepers of KnowledgeAncientGutenbergMartin Luther / The ReformationIndustrial RevolutionTechnological Revolution

Information Revolution / AgeWill affect people from all cultures, religions,

and languages

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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

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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

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Human BrainPeople refer to it as a folder or a filing

cabinetPeople think it uses a hierarchy to organize

information

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The Real Human Brain

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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

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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

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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?

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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!)

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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

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How can I use this in the classroom?SMART boardsDigital projectorsDigital CamerasLaptops and tabletsClickersWebquestsPowerPointsWikisBlogs

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BloggingWeb-loggingWriting on the internetJournalingEasiest transition for the traditional

teacherwww.wordpress.comwww.blogger.comhttp://edublogs.org/Commoncraft’s explanation of blogging

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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

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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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Bibliography Carr, N. (2008). Is Google making us stupid? The Atlantic. Retrieved from

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

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

Today. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-05-IHE-colleges-give-iPads-to-students05_N.htm

Rutledge, P. (2009). Talk to teens in their native social tongue: Social media. Psychology Today. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/positively-media/200906/talk-teens-in-their-native-tongue-social-media

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