2. Why did I choose technology? Technology Internet Social media Web 2.0 Impact of all of this on education Technology is itself a topic, but more importantly, is a vehicle for all other topics My rationale, personal impact, and global impact
3. Web 2.0 in the Classroom Wikis Blogs Social networking USER GENERATED CONTENT
4. Gatekeepers of Knowledge Ancient Gutenberg Martin Luther / The Reformation Industrial Revolution Technological Revolution Information Revolution / Age Will affect people from all cultures, religions, and languages
5. Old Information We are in the revolution right now The creation, organization, distribution, and ownership of information itself is changing Aristotle’s Categories Dewey Decimal System Categories, hierarchies, file systems
6. New Information Web 2.0 Folksonomies – Folk Taxonomies TOP DOWN TO BOTTOM UP CONTROL The people provide new content and organize the content as they see fit Hyperlinks Tagging The “cloud” Collaborative intelligence
7. Human Brain People refer to it as a folder or a filing cabinet People think it uses a hierarchy to organize information
9. 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 Today A Vision of K-12 Students Today 21st Century Pedagogy Social Media Revolution
10. Native Language of our Students Digital They get their information on screens Technology, social media Text more than they talk, text the person next to them Teachers need to speak in their native technology without using their native language – text, twitter, and blog without talking like a 14 year old
11. Reactionary Backlash The 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 information All information searchable from a variety of angles and keywords – no one entry point Focus shifted from memorization to analysis and creation Isn’t that our focus as educators? And this is a bad thing?
12. A Common Sense Response 3M 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!)
13. The Global Citizen A focus of our SOE A reality on the web http://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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