Thing #5

I chose to read Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators and New Literacies: Enrichment or Essential. First of all, I am glad to be apart of this class and an educational system that promotes the process of utilizing technology and putting emphasis on that this is the way of not only the future, but now. These resources stress the emphasis that using technology is essential to life and must be essential to students. Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators says that today's students are already on board with what is new and happening in technology, and educators have to know what they are learning and show them how to use this in the educational setting to prepare them for life. The second website shows how to use these ideas such as blogs and wikis in the classroom, which is also what we are doing in this class.

School 2.0 to me means keeping technology in the classroom to prepare our current learners for the jobs they are going to have. Teachers have to keep this in mind. Not only do they have to teach students the fundamentals of learning, but they are preparing them for the world. New jobs are created everyday, and without these tools, the students will not have the opportunities to get on board.

I would like to see a future for schools that includes all access to technology at all times. Students in every school SHOULD have their own laptops. Assignments should be virtual so that they can get ready for tasks in the work place that are all online. Parents should be able to have access to student's work on the web, as well as communication with teachers online. Technology should not be a privilege, it should be a requirement.