Thing #5~Amy Rutledge

This post is about Thing #5~ Some perspectives on Web2.0/School 2.0 and the Future of Education. I am from the Web 1.0 generation. This meant that when I began using the Internet, I mostly sent emails or surfed the web and read through the pages. Now we have evolved our Internet experiences to those that we can actually interact with and determine the content we receive. We have gone from reading articles written by one expert to finding articles with collaborative input from many people both professionals and those with real life experience. School 2.0 takes the best that Web 2.0 has to offer and extends this experience to the classroom. Teachers have a wealth of information and tools right at their fingertips. Students can also access more information, both at school and at home, to help them have a more in depth learning experience. By continuing to use Web 2.0 tools we can have a more interactive classroom where learning moves from the textbooks to the more "real-world" of Internet collaboration.