Technology

The big push right now in education is incorporating 21st century skills many of which include the use of technology. So just what is technology? What programs, software, hardware and machines should we be using in school and teaching students to use in school? How?

Read this blog. What does this say about the gap between the digital natives (those 25 and under) and the digital immigrants (those 30 and older)? Do teachers, administrators and staff really understand the importance placed on technology by the students who use it?

Web 2.0, Learning 2.0, School 2.0 and Education 2.0

What does the title mean? Are schools focusing on the correct content for today's students who will live and work in a technology rich world that most currently teaching teachers cannot even begin to imagine? Read the following and tell me what you think schools should focus on in the courses offered and the skills taught in grades K-12.

Web 2.0: Block It or Embrace It?
What is Web 2.0?
Learning 2.0
School 2.0
Introducing Education 2.0

Students in a technological world

Read this article from the Washington Post about a Virginia high school student who called to complain about an administrator's decision to hold school even after a snow storm which caused many problems. After you read the story, discuss just how digital immigrants (such as the people in my generation and older generations) fail to understand the importance of technology to the digital natives (students in the current generation). What about how technology is changing the rules of behavior and changing the ideas about what is appropriate and allowable and what is not?