Web 2.0:How have the Internet and learners changed and how can education respond?

Jason Neiffer

Helena Public Schools

07-08 Learning Academy

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The Foundation:Montana State Tech Standards• Originally written in 1999

• Up for revision in 2008 (involving two HPS teachers)

• Key notes:– HPS adopts standards through

curriculum– Obligates classrooms to cover topics

as media literacy, media ethics, new communication

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Other Standards

• International Society for Technology in Education– Student Standards (new in ’07)

– Administrator Standards– Teacher Standards

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Standards Commentary

• Changing Definition: Standards are not just desktop computers and content databases!

The “Old Internet”: A Visit to the 1990s

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Source: “Commodore 1985 Commercial,” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_f3uIzEIxo

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Source: “Microsoft Commercial – 1995,” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=kv96_rZTMkM

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Source: “AOL Commercial – Homework” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SVXqvrFtOM

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Source: “AT & T Commercial – Walkin’ After Midnight,” via YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=4AK0qq6ivOE

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Jason’s Innovative 1998 Classroom• Links? Woo hoo!

Source: Jason Neiffer, “Civil War Links,” 1998, http://www.chs.helena.k12.mt.us/wwwassignments/neiffer.htm

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Chief Consideration? Content

What is the Internet?

Today?The Technology and Our Learners have Changed!

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Some research…

• The newest generation of the Internet (Web 2.0) “represents a fundamental revolution in communication no less important or transformative than the invention of the Guttenburg printing press.” (Fryer 2006)

Source: Wesley Fryer, “Welcome to Web 2.0,” March 26, 2006,http://www.wtvi.com/teks/web2/

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What direction are we headed?2007 Horizon Project Report• Key trends affecting higher education—

next 5 years– One year or less

• Social Networking • User-Created Content

– Two-Three Years• Mobile Phones • Virtual Worlds

– Four-Five Years• New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of

Publication• Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

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What students are telling us…

Source: “MyLine: Talkback,” The Free Land-Star, 11 December 2007, http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/122007/12112007/340199

So, What is Web 2.0?

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The Evolution of Information:The Machine is Us/ing Us (2007)

Source: Michael Welsh, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” 2007, http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

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Web 2.0 Defined

• From Web 2.0 tool Wikipedia: "In studying and/or promoting web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.”

Source: “Web 2.0,” Wikipedia, 7 January 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

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Source: Luca Cremonini, “Web 2.0 Map,” December 2006, http://www.railsonwave.it/railsonwave/2007/1/2/web-2-0-map

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Comparing Old and New

reading writing

companies communities

html xml

home pages blogs

portals RSS

taxonomy tags

wires wireless

owning sharing

web forms applications

dialup broadband

Source: Joe Drumgoole, “Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0,” 29 May 2006, http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10/

Web 2.0:The Internet is Application Rich

Google Docs: Office Apps

Web 2.0:Easy Web Publishing/User Generation Conflict

Blogging: “WebLogs”

Blogging Platforms

Multimedia Publishing

The Next Frontier: Live Streams

Web 2.0:Collaboration

Wikis

Web 2.0:Social Networking

The Infamous and Others

Web 2.0:Folksonomies

Tagging and Social Networking Combined

Tag Clouds: What is important?

Web 2.0:Mashups: Using Content from Different Sources in New Ways

RSS Feeds: New Age Information Management

Mashups!

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Giving Credit

• PowerPoint Template:Brainy Betty’s PowerPoint Templateshttp://www.brainybetty.com/