My teenager is doing it without a thought about "new authoring tools" or "social networking interactions". She doesn't call it "2.0", she just went from surfing to face-booking, just like she moved from middle school to high school. It's what you and all your friends do.
I envy that she seamlessly adapts and uses, too preoccupied in her present moment to care about the Fall of the Newspaper or the Liberation of the Library. She has no favorite way that pre-dates the Internet, she doesn't question time spent in front of a computer screen.
I took a whole year of typing in junior high, and my respectable words per minute came from two semesters of repetitive drills
and timed tests on a manual Underwood, eyes glued on the copy book, never on the blank keys. My daughter learned finger positions with an on-line typing course, and credits her typing speed and accuracy to IM'ing.
We analyze it, they do it. May they never step off the crest of the wave.
What I absorbed the most from these readings was theme of collaboration, results stored on the web, and video projects becoming increasingly common as class assignments. Free webware tools make it possible for students to easily incorporate multimedia into their work. The line between classroom and Internet is disappearing as courses use Facebook, UTube, and blogs as their interaction and information tools.
The highlights of tonight's journey were:
The copyright law video, compiled with Disney clips
The Human Brain Cloud (animated word associations cluster maps)
The word collage maker, Wordle
The Pitzer class evaluating UTube
The implications for my teaching are:
get every student access to computers and video cameras
build global awareness through international online project
see examples of 2.0 lessons / units
think in terms of online collaboration / learning
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