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Perhaps this is because education systems often deliver outdated stuff via outdated methods.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!
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