Phone Book

Check out the future of interactive education for kids:

Learning to Change!

Web 2.0 and Student Engagement

In "Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance", Kansas State University's Michael Wesch makes the argument that today's students often don't feel that the things they are learning is school are significant; they thus disengage easily.

Perhaps this is because education systems often deliver outdated stuff via outdated methods. We need to deliver curricular content & methodology that is relevant to today's learners in order to reengage them.

Teaching Web 2.0 delivers on both counts -- through Web 2.0 education, students are learning what they will need to know in order to be proficient in their future work, and learning in the way that future education & communication will most likely be delivered & implemented. Today's lifelong learner needs a level of technological proficiency that yesterday's did not.

Check out one way that Web 2.0 is being applied in order to engage and prepare students by watching this short video: Twitter in the Classroom, and try it yourself!

Bloom's Taxonomy: Web 2.0

Here's a great PDF of Bloom's Taxonomy with Web 2.0 skills aligned, from ICTeaching.

WatchKnow

New Educational video website available: WatchKnow.org

This is a wiki-style, fully searchable / contributable database of internet-available educational videos, tagged by age appropriateness.

For an introductory video, click here.

To access the site, click here.

Thanks,
Ross.