We often think and talk about students using web 2.0 applications within the classroom to get them motivated and excited about learning. However, we don’t often think that all of this interactive web 2.0 practicing will be getting them ready for the use of 2.0 applications within the work forces. Because of the way that students are becoming more technologically advanced right out of high school, it is changing the way that the work world and even college education is implemented and run.
The article titled “Baby Steps In Web 2.0 Application” discuses how college professors are using web 2.0 applications to implement their teaching. For example, the article mentioned how one professor, Alan Lew used Innertoob within his class. Innertoob is a 2.0 application that allows for the students to reflect on the content that he has posted. They can interact with it via text messages, blogging, or literally “voicing” there opinion. This allows for the other students as well as himself to go back and see what other students have to say about the content that he is teaching.
I found this article to be very interesting. This may be a technology that professors are using, but it is also something that high school classroom teachers could be using as well. As I was reading this article, another thought came to my mind. If colleges are jumping on the technology bandwagon, then it really is our job to give our students as much exposure to web 2.0 and other technology when we can. If they don’t have the exposure they need, then not only will they not be trying to learn the content when they get to college, but they will be trying to lean the technology as well.
Fernando, A. (2008). Baby steps in Web 2.0 education. Communication World, 25(3), 8-9. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.
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