I think it's exciting, but also a little overwhelming because there's so much I don't know, and will I really be able to integrate Web 2.0 into my classroom?
In the schools where I have taught in the past, most of my students didn't have a computer at home. So any technology that I wanted to use was pretty much limited to what I could do in the classroom, which was not much and was rarely very interactive. It was mostly me using the technology as a teaching tool...In other words, it was more of a Web 1.0 situation. In the future it seems that I will be communicating with students and parents in a whole new way. Homework assignments will be given differently, hopefully in ways that will encourage a deeper level of thinking from the students and will give me a better insight as to what the students really know. Parents will really be able to have an intimate knowledge of what is going on in the classroom, which hopefully will help them to support their children's learning even better.
I think that with cell phones and video games and computers being the norm for so many kids, education really has had to change to be able to engage kids in the classroom. It doesn't really work for a teacher to stand at the front of the class and lecture kids all day. I think that by bringing Web 2.0 into the classroom, students will want to get involved because they will be doing things similar to what they already like to do.
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