Thing #5

The Internet started out as a broad network of users communicating information mostly through email. The first computer I owned was used to setup an AOL email account and use it to chat with others by typing text and sending it just like our cell phones do today.  As technology evolved, communicating through the use of computers evolved, however the link between the web and education was weak. Technology ran speeding like a train, while education lacked the monetary resources to keep up.  School 2.0 means that educators have to be taught at lightening speeds about the technology needed to get the students on that technological train that left them behind. Some eyes have opened to the need for students to have the technology necessary to engage their learning styles.  Schools are slowly taking advantage of how web 2.0 can be used while staying within their budgets.  In the future I see schools collaborating, sharing, and teaching students to use web 2.0 and the ways it can used to promote a lifelong learning experience.  I plan to use web 2.0 to get my elementary school students knowledgeable about its uses.