Engaging digital natives with web 2.0 tools

Engaging Digital Natives with

Web 2.0 ToolsElizabeth Wolzak

Nadyne Hick

Agenda

• Introduction• Today’s students• Teaching and learning today

– Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy– Web 2.0 tools and Bloom’s– You and Web 2.0– Meaningful learning experiences

• Questions

Who are today’s students?

“A Vision of Students Today”

Wesch. M. (2007). A Vision of Students Today. [Video clip] Mediated Cultures. Retrieved February 1, 2010 from

http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm

Describe your students

Profile of our students today

• Innovators• Content creators• Collaborators• Multi-taskers• Communicators• Searchers for relevancy• Display an interactive approach to

work

Web 2.0

"Web 2.0 is an invented term, coined in 2004… It encompasses the growing collection of new and emerging Web-based tools. Many are similar in function to desktop applications, with people using their browsers for access rather than installing the software on computers. Many tools are free and available to all, a change from applications that are purchased or licensed annually. Others are social in nature and promote self-expression, such as the community networks, blogs, wikis, and photo and video sharing sites."

Solomon, G., & Schrum L. (2007). Web 2.0 - New tools, new schools. Washington, DC: International Society for Technology in Education, 13.

Literacy 2.0

“Literacy 2.0 necessarily involves extensive participation, collaboration, and the

distribution of expertise and "intelligence," along with widely dispersed access to human

and informational resources.”

Knobel, C., & Wilber, D. (2009, March). Who are today's learners. Educational Leadership, 66(6), 20-24.

Are we doing it?

“What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school’s curriculum and the program you use are preparing students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them from today?”

Jacobs, H. (2010). Curriculum 21: essential education for a changing world. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1.

Revised Blooms' Taxonomy

Churches, A. (2008, April). Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally. TECH & Learning. Retrieved March 2, 2010 from    http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

Remembering

VerbsRecallingListingDescribingIdentifying

ToolsQuizlet Flashcards

TweetGoogle Reader

Understanding

VerbsInterpretingSummarizingClassifyingExplaining

ToolsGoogle docsBoolifyDelicious

Applying

VerbsUsingImplementingDemonstratingExecuting

ToolsBloggerGlogsterTimeline

Analyzing

VerbsComparingOrganizingOutliningCategorizing

ToolsNotestarDiigoMind Maps

Evaluating

VerbsCritiquingTestingExperimentingJudging

ToolsNingGoogleEtherPad

Creating

VerbsDesigningConstructingInventingProducing

ToolsGoogle EarthCollaborative Project

Churches, A. (2008, April). Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally. TECH & Learning. Retrieved March 2, 2010 from http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

Becoming Web 2.0

“These Web 2.0 tools – social bookmarking, video sharing, social networking, wikis, all the things that let people create and share knowledge- are really very powerful for professional development because they reinforce the message that we want professional development to be an experience where everybody learns from everybody else.”

Chris DedeCrow, T. (2010, February). Learning, no matter where you are. JSD, 31 (1),

14.

Becoming Web 2.0

NINGsClassroom2.0 The Educator’s PLN Internet servicePBS TeacherLine Peer Connection Web 2.0 toolsGoogle Tools

How to develop meaningful learning experiences?

Questions

Elizabeth WolzakSenior Manager, Online Contenteawolzak@pbs.org

Nadyne Hick Capstone Program Managernahick@pbs.org