[LM_NET] GEN. Web 2.0

[Deborah Stafford <deborah.stafford@T-ONLINE.DE>]

I hope everyone doesn't mind one more post on this topic. Toni's response
to LM_NET and Laura's response to me off line have me thinking as well. To
borrow from Toni "I'm not sure that I'm right here, or that you're wrong,
but what's twinkling in my brain feels pretty legitimate at the moment."
My musings on a Saturday morning in Germany where winter has finally
arrived.

Toni Buzzeo wrote;
"I think we might be able to make the case that technology skills (whether
1.0 in the past or 2.0 in the present) are similar.  We require students to
LEARN those skills so that they can use them to LEARN once they have
them.  The initial learning again opens the door to other learning and to
functioning in their futures."

I am not against including use of technology in any standards. I just want
use to be careful that we don't make a particular technology tool the
standard
itself. We don't want a situation where people are teaching blogging because
it is one of the standards long after blogs may have disappeared. Students
who
have had rich learning experiences dealing with literature will pick up
blogging
without much trouble. Students who had superficial exposure to blogging will
not
necessarily be ahead of those who didn't.

And it may be that my thinking is colored by working with high school
teachers.
I believe that teachers see the NETS or the Information Literacy standards
as one more thing they have to do instead of seeing them incorporated into
their standards. It is their subject standards they are held accountable for
and as such what they focus on. I would like to see the NETS and the
Information
Literacy Standards be more closely correlated to those subject area
standards.

I do, however, think we need to keep working on the "techies" to make sure
they allow
us to use web 2.0 tools, (or any new tools on the horizon) to help our
students LEARN
to LEARN. So far, know on wood, my district has been fairly open.

Deborah Stafford
Gen. H.H. Arnold High School
Wiesbaden, Germany
deborah.stafford@t-online.de

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