The end is in sight...but my mind is overloaded with new technological ideas and how they can be put to good use. I found this chapter interesting the way it when through the "big shift" and how one thing leads to another. I'm not sure I will ever see a classroom where everything is done on the web....reading, writing, editing, publishing, sharing, working with strangers from across the world on projects...but it certainly sounds interesting.
As an elementary teacher I don't see this working but it needs to start somewhere. Introducing upper elementary school age children to these new ideas and slowly teaching them how to use them may lead to high school students learning as described in Chapter 10. Not all students can be self learners so teachers will still need to guide the learning process for most.
Educators will certainly be challenged to become, connectors, content creators, collaborators and finally coaches to bring Read/Write Web to the classroom. A lot of work for the future educators of the world. Good luck.
My mind is definitely overloaded with all of this technology. I do like it though, but I find that it takes me SO LONG to figure things out when I am "home alone" sitting at my computer. (A positive of taking this course is that I am really challenging my brain, which they say is important to do as a Senior:)) Working now at a Middle School, I have an opportunity to see all of the really neat technological things that the kids are doing. I plan to experiment with some of my Health classes with some of the things we've been learning this year. With the technological world that we now have, there will be "big shifts" in learning in the future, and, I agree, best of luck to future educators.
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