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Web 2.0 Classroom

What does a Web 2.0 Classroom look like?

A web 2.0 classroom should be centered on every day technological gadgets and tools that are available to students such as cell phones, lap tops, iPods, as well as other tools. A web 2.0 classroom should have access to the internet without restrictions, because filters restrict student’s access to information that facilitates the learning process. The Web 2.0 classroom should look like a super highway that links students, parents, and teachers together.  A web 2.0 classroom uses technology as its core for instruction. Why should students and school restrict themselves to information?  We are no longer dependent on textbooks or even teachers. With the internet all students need is a facilitator guiding them through the curriculum and their learning process.

The internet is revolutionizing the curriculum and the ways that teaching is implemented in the classroom. In a Web 2.O classroom the professor has the ability to check homework, add, delete, or modify assignments.  In a dynamic class environment the students and parents have easy access to the assignments and grades. Parents have emails that link them to what is happening at school and in the classroom. Everyone has access to the information and sharing information is common in a Web 2.0 class. Sharing helps the student develop partnerships with fellow classmates and led to cooperative groups.

Creating a technological rich constructivist classroom is easy. Simply allowing students to use the technological gadgets and tools in the classroom is one way. Most students have cell phones. Cell phones come with internet access, email, texting, and video and cameras. As a teacher I can use these gadgets to provide assignments and communicate with the students; image that some of the world’s greatest leaders have been toppled by persons with cell phones. I am sure that I can find a way to use it in the classroom. Sharing information is common to everyone. Everyone has shared a photo to a song with someone else and still sharing has evolved to the more complex sharing of files, data, and programs files.  By breaking down the barrier that educational institutes have imposed to protect the student’s privacy and rights have restricted the learning process.  Learning has taken a new direction that is yet to be charted and defined.  A technological rich environment is students using technology throughout the day. Before the day began the teacher in the article read the news, updates information, emailed students, check weblogs and shared information with students and colleagues.  The information was readily accessible to everyone and to me this is how a technological classroom is created and sustained.       

Web Tools for the Constructivist Classroom

First day of school. Interesting! Web 2.0 tools. For thoses of you that are taking the class with me it is going to be a fun class. If you miss a lot of class or can't make it in you can visit my blog and get class updates on what went on in the class.

Today
Discussed syllalbus
Discussed Epilogue article
Worked on the blog posting
Saw a video
Teacher will post the class powerpoint on the blackboard
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