Thing #5

I'll admit I was very impressed while reading the 2.o information. It makes perfect sense that this is where our economy, education, government, and everything else is going: it's going global. Then, I had to stop and think. What about crop producers in Kansas? What about beef management people with herds of cattle and land over 1000 acres? Many of these people use Web 2.0 to obtain information, to communicate, to handle the next livestock sale. Do their hired hands? The people who get dirty doing all those hands-on activities that I can only watch from a podcast? Is the great divide becoming greater?

At any rate, Web 2.0 is a completely digital world. Wouldn't/shouldn't teacher education change as a result? It makes me feel so old and outdated. However, I can take part in this digital world because I agree with MacManus when he said Web 2.0 is "everday, non-technical people using Web technology to enhance their own lives and businesses." It is definitely changing how I look at education and what my students will be doing in the immediate future.

Schools will have to transform/change how monies are spent. The funds used for textbooks can go to technology. So many changes can be made. Classes can be taught on the Web - wouldn't this cost less too? (Fewer teachers perhaphs?)