Web 2.0 = Schools 1.1 : Transforming the Traditional

School Environment

Ryan SchaafHoward County Public Schools

Technology Teacherryan_schaaf@hcpss.org

What is Web 2.0?“Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.”

Tim O’Reilly

Published on O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/

Creativity

Information Sharing

Collaboration

Web 2.0 Statistics• U.S. Web Traffic - 9 out of the top 10 sites are

considered Web 2.0 applications.• As of 2006, 70 million households in the US have

internet access ( 64% ) • In 2006, world-wide internet users exceeded 1 billion.

Alexa http://www.alexa.com/

Can you guess half of the websites that are on the top 20 list of US internet traffic?

11. AOL12. Blogger.com13. Megaupload14. Amazon.com15. Megaupload16. Go17. Photobucket18. The Internet Movie

Database19. CNN - Cable News Network20. ESPN Sportszone

20 Most Visited Websites in the U.S. (April 2008)

1. Google2. Yahoo!3. Myspace4. YouTube5. Facebook6. Windows Live7. EBay8. Wikipedia9. Craigslist.org10. Microsoft Network (MSN)

Digital Age vs. Traditional School Setting

Classroom : 1904

Classroom : 2008

Generation D(Digital)• Speedy• Parallel Thinking (Multi-Tasking)• Random Access• Graphics vs. Text• Connected • Active Learners• Immediate Feedback• Fantasy Oriented• Tech Literate

Marc Prensky

Transformation

Schools must transform. The walls of the school no longer provide an obstacle. The World-Wide Web allows for limitless possibilities for instruction.

School TransformationRethinking the curriculum We must view learning as a continuum of

instruction rather than a series of discrete events. We must end the assembly line, departmentalized model of teaching and learning and place far more emphasis on a unified, integrated continuum of instruction rather than a series of independent, unrelated courses. We must go beyond theory and focus on practical applications that are relevant to workplace rather than mutually exclusive and theoretical subjects that prepare students for yesterday and today, not tomorrow.

School Transformation

Where do we begin?

Start by standing back. It is time to step back from our traditional thinking about learning and rethink schools, classrooms, curriculum, evaluation, the roles of teachers & learners and particularly, what it means and what it will mean to learn in the light of the modern changing world.

Ian Jukes

Web 2.0 Teacher Tools

Web 2.0 Teacher ToolsCreate a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

•On-line

•Free

•Step by step instructions

•Generate a .jpeg or .pdf file.

•promotes cross- curricular instruction

Web 2.0 Teacher Tools

http://www.blabberize.com/creation/playBlabber/14348

http://www.blabberize.com/

•Free (guest account)

•Privacy setting

•Encourages writing, visual learning, oral comprehension, and virtual role-playing

•Step-by step instructions

Web 2.0 Teacher ToolsUse images to create a 30 second slideshow/ music video.

•requires sign-up

•free 30 second clips

•easy, step-by-step instructions

•sent via e-mailhttp://animoto.com/

Web 2.0 Teacher Tools

• on-line bookmarking• free• provides descriptions, hyperlinks,

and titles

http://del.icio.us/

Web 2.0 Teacher Tools

Google Earth

•free

•cross-platform

•customizable

•virtual field trips

•map skills

http://earth.google.com

Kerpoof• safe, non-evasive

sign up

• multimedia

• visual arts

• teacher section for lesson plans, ideas, etc.

Blogs & Wikis•free service for schools

•collaboration

•promotes writing

•synchronous and asynchronous access

•safe and secure

•watch for hidden traps (overwriting and update errors)

http://cesblog.learnerblogs.org/

Closure

• Remember 3 things from the presentation

• What were 2 new ideas you learned from the presentation?

• Think of one question you still have about the presentation

Bibliography

1) School 2.0 Image retrieved from www.salisbury21.org/blog/index.php/rj/P20/

2) Tim O’Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/

3) Internet & Web 2.0 Statistics http://www.alexa.com/

Bibliography

Jukes, I (2006). Education at the Crossroads: The Restructuring of Education, the Future of Employment and the Challenge to Education, The InfoSavvy Group. pg. 7.