Thing #5

 This first website I visited was Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators. I found this site to be slightly outdated and redundant. The definitions and examples were ones that I have been hearing about for the past five or so years. I didn't feel like I learned anything from that blog. It wasn't terrible, but it was difficult to read something I already know. I was thinking these websites would tell us how teachers can integrate technology in the classroom. Instead this blog told me what technology is out there. The second vblog I read, Web 2.0: Is the Future of Education, was about how professionals can help teachers with education. This vblog was much more interesting. She explained how teachers need technology, but they do not need to be completely emerged into every nuance of technology all at once. She said that at one point they chose a few schools to completely emerge in technology. This idea did not work to their advantage. The teachers who received all this new technology felt overwhelmed. It was decided that multiple schools need a slow progression into technology.
Web 2.0 means education will never be the same. As we progress more and more there are easier, more efficient ways to do almost anything. Technology makes life extremely simple at times. Students already have tools the find almost anything they can imagine. As we develop it becomes hard to imagine exactly how different our classrooms may become. This ever increasing technology will make classrooms even more interactive between the teachers and students. The school system may also be altered. It is hard to visualize the school I went to as a child never being the same again, but it is a move in the right direction.