Education+and+Web+2.0

Student perceptions of technology in the classroom: The good, the bad, and the ugly (Kinsey Avery) http://faculty.mckendree.edu/ATLAS/student_perceptions.htm

This article talks about how students use and view technology in the classroom. Gabie E. Smith conducted a survey interviewing students about how they feel about technology. The good effects of using technology are that they are being exposed to a variety of different technologies in their classrooms. Most have a positive outlook on using technology in the classrooms. Some of negative responses were that teachers move to fast when using technology in the classroom. They just breezed through the information and did not let it set in. In addition, some of the teachers did not know how to correctly use the technology. In conclusion, all these problems are fixable.

**Moving Toward Web 2.0 in K-12 Education** (Mike Tomin)
__[]__ Steve Hargadon argues in his article that Web 2.0 needs to be implemented in K-12 education. He explains how Web 2.0 is a media in which, "content is not only consumed but also created. ” For the younger generation, this is nothing out of the ordinary. Many are familiar with the uses of Web 2.0. Teens post to blogs, forums, and social media every day, creating content. For the older generation, growing up with broadcast media, Web 1.0 is their platform. They are aware of the pages of content on the web, but only consume content. They are never the ones to create content. This difference makes it hard for parents, or those of the older generation, to understand how Web 2.0 will be useful in education. Steve created a list of the educational benefits of Web 2.0 to try and help explain the potential Web 2.0 has for use I schools. Web 2.0 will improve: Engagement, Authenticity, Participation, Openness and Access to Information, Collaboration, Creativity, Passionate Interest and Personal Expression, Discussion, Asynchronous Contribution, Proactivity, and Critical Thinking. One of the major problems the Steve points out is schools are retrofitted with tons of new technology, nice computers, ect. Although this is great for the students, those who are heading the retrofits are not implementing this new technology into education. The tools are there, but teachers need to implement these tools into their lesson plans, their teaching methods, into education. The end with one last note from Steve, he strongly believes that, “  Web 2.0 will be a significant part of the future of learning ,” if not, “Web 2.0 is the future of education.” I see some of the same issues that Steve points out in his article. Web 2.0 could be of great use in education. Look at what we are doing with it in our English 130P course. The tools, the computers and networks, are already implemented in schools. The only thing that falls short is the use of these tools in educational processes. Educational institutions are not take advantage of the situation in front of them. They have huge potential in educational achievement through the use of Web 2.0, yet no one seems to feel the necessity to intertwine Web 2.0 with education.

This article would be good for anyone researching the cross between Web 2.0 and Education. It gives great descriptions on the benefits of using Web 2.0 in education and even list the potential problems that will need to be worked out when finally implementing Web 2.0 into schools.

[|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p-b0SQUk2o] Allie Boone -- This powerful video, put together by Michael Wesch and his students, is about the effects of technology on college students. The students in the video explain through various written phrases their opinions of classes and technology today. Most students in the video appear to be disappointed with their education today and are upset that technology has interfered so much with their education, whether it be direct or indirect. Students express that their lives are consumed by technology in that they facebook in class instead of paying attention or let television and music distract them from their work. Some of these students also expressed disappointment in their education by expressing that teachers do not take the time to get to know their names, and that they have to spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks and tuition annually for the bare minimum of education. This video raises questions for me. I am curious to know why some teachers no longer feel the need to personally get to know their students or do their jobs the “old-fashioned way” and not let technology interfere with their teaching. I also am interested to know why students spend so much time with their technology that they lose out on a portion of their education. This video can be useful for anyone who is interested in researching education and the web. It can also be used as evidence for how technology affects people on a day-to day-basis, not just with education, but with being distracted from other responsibilities as well. Finally, it can be used for identity purposes to see how people identify with the Internet and what it means to them. [|Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning] Kevin Cerini

Adding computers and the internet with teaching and learning would be considered my most to be "wrong" because many believe the old way of teaching with books and in class is the only way children can learn. The author of this article argues for the side of the internet teaching. He states that the idea of social media has been around since the 1960s. Back then, people believed that if all humans could somehow find a way to connect with each other, we would have so many different sources of information that people would be so well educated. As of today’s technology we are able to connect with almost anyone that has a computer. The author states that the internet can help students and non students acquire accurate information fast. Teachers teach students through the internet and teach them through means social networking which would be an advantage because behind the teacher is a world of help and answers. He calls teaching and learning on web 2.0 Folksonomy. He uses this term because it refers to how people can change the internet with “tags”, videos, and blogs and he emphasizes that students can access this information at any time.

In this article Julianne Elliott, discusses the various ways that the internet have changed the way the world communicates, and uses the internet. Politics have used the internet to get their politics seen by more people, by placing ads and, starting groups on websites like Facebook to further their outreach. Also, Facebook, Myspace, and programs like AIM have allowed the world to communicate from the internet without leaving their homes. it has changed how business is used, by allowing us to pay our bills online, and even be able to buy products online, and have them shipped to your house.

A question this text raises for me is, What would the world be like if the internet never evolved? How would we be able to communicate with the rest of the world? These questions are very important, because imagine if you were not able to talk to your family on the east coast, or over seas! This text made me think about all the different ways that the internet has changed the world in many different ways. When you think about it, it is absolutely amazing what the internet has done for us. I can not imagine a world without the internet. This text is a prime research tool, because it covers all angles of how the internet has helped the world today, and how the internet will help in the future.

[] Josh Borja

This video is talking about education and Web 2.0. It brings up the question of how much students learn in the class room compared to how much they learn in their own lives. Wesch is asking why are students in class if they learn from what they do. They are supposed to be learning from what the teacher is writing on the board, when really students are off task in class most of the time and learning more in the outside world than they do in class. Wesch did a web pole with his students about their classes and school in general to show how much students actually learn in class. He put all of the averages together and had them displayed. One said, “I will read 8 books this year, 2,300 web pages, & 1281 facbook profiles.” He shows so many examples of what school has done for college students. That they spend hundreds on books they never open, how the will be in $20,000 in debt when they graduate. I think the one that explained a college student’s life to me the best was this, “I get 7 hours of sleep each night! I spend 1 ½ hours watching TV every night. I spend 3 ½ hours a day online. I listen to music 2.5 hours a day. I spend 2 hours on my cell phone. Spend 3 hours in class. 2 hours eating. I work 2 hours every day. 3 hours studying. That’s a total of 26.5 hours per day. I’m a multitasker. (I have to be)” This video makes me realize how busy students are and how their lives are affected by technology. This entire video brings a realization and an interest to Web 2.0 I didn’t have before. This video makes me want to keep watching and reading things about Web 2.0 and how technology affects out lives. This video can help us understand the affects on a college student. It can raise a lot of questions to others about how much a student learns in class compared to outside of class.

[|A Vision of Students Today] -Tara Beaver

Keely McGaffin Media Aesthetics

 In this video Wesch explains how you interact though the internet. The video shows how you can click different items on the internet and it will literally take you anywhere. You can click buttons that move you forward and buttons that can move you back. The video also shows you how the internet uses different effects of transporting you from one group of information to another group of information with just a click of a button. The internet allows you to surf the web and be able to interact with literally the whole world, with just the touch of you fingers. In the video it takes you through different websites and shows you how you can get from one point to another by just clicking different items on the screen. The video basically explains how the internet is like a domino effect. It starts off with someone starting a web page, and then others adding onto them...which later then transforms its self into the world wide web. Where people can view you posts, read about them, share them with other, and learn ideas from the items you post on the internet. “The points the author makes about the web is that the web is no longer just linking information, its also linking us. The web 2.0 is linking people...people are sharing, collaborating, and trading information. Another point the author makes is that digital text is movable, you can change your ideas, move them around, and share them with other people or websites.” The author makes the points in the video by showing how you can be one place on the web and literally click a button and have it transform you to another link of information. He demonstrates the points he makes by changing hypertexts on the internet and changing words, changing information, he does this to show you how easily you can change things on the internet and share them with others. The questions this video raises for me was who is really reading the things I post online? It makes me think about what I might be posting on the web and sharing with others. Also, do I really know who is looking at the things I am posting? These are the questions it raised in my head. I found it interesting how true it is that the internet has such a huge variety of information for people to use at the convenience. The hyper texts confuse me about this information. Its confusing how you can italicize things yourself, or make things bold your self. I would like to know more about how to redefine web pages to make them fit people ideas to their own ways of life. I would like to know more about how to customize web pages to fit your personality. The text can support our research by giving us ideas of where to begin our research so that we get start off on the right path. It can also give you ideas of what websites hold correct information. We can use this text to help us find information on ideas we need to know more about or want to know more about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE - Keely McGaffin