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Web 2.0 tools - Helping teachers apply them to teaching standards Front Page Overview and Question 2 address – general learning

 1. Identify/define standard Through Applications of Learning, students demonstrate and deepen their understanding of basic knowledge and skills. These applied learning skills cross academic disciplines and reinforce the important learning of the disciplines. The ability to use these skills will greatly influence students' success in school, in the workplace and in the community. 2. How do Web 2.0 tools make the standard easier to incorporate in the classroom Students use web 2.0 to tools to create portfolios, use web quests, and creatively demonstrate their understanding. 3. Examples Web Quests, portfolios, automated interactive videos, presentations 4. What this means for education These ideas and trends are taking education to a mixed classroom of lecturer, facilitator and web expert. 5. What this means for informal learning 6. Challenges Teachers need to become expert in Web 2.0 tools. Teachers need to teach Web 2.0 tools before using them.
 * Applications of Learning**

**Solving Problems** 1. Identify/define standard Students will obtain the skills necessary to recognize, investigate, and support their solutions to various complex problems. 2. How do Web 2.0 tools make the standard easier to incorporate in the classroom The interactive tools provided by Web 2.0 allow students to explore concepts from a constructivst standpoint without requiring the teacher to create these more involved and hands-on lessons on his or her own. It also allows for student-centered lessons without extensive setup and without the need to buy costly manipulatives for each classroom teacher. 3. Examples Applets (Geogebra), wikis, podcasts, discussion forums 4. What this means for education The vast amount of Web 2.0 technologies are allowing more teachers to partake in student-centered learning rather than the traditional lecture format, despite the subject matter. It also is not limited to people within the years of formal schooling. Many more people will now have access to these technologies to expand their problem solving skills beyond their student years, and this can help engage parents in their students' learning. 5. Challenges Students will need to be taught to be more independent so that they can take full advantage of opportunities to create meaning for themselves and discover where content knowledge can solve their own real-life problems. This means that teachers will need to shift their mindset from being the source of information to a facilitator. They will need to be flexible, adaptable, and willing participants in professional development to learn technologies that permeate students’ lives.

1. Identify/define standard 2. How do Web 2.0 tools make the standard easier to incorporate in the classroom 3. Examples 4. What this means for education 5. Challenges
 * Communicating**
 * 1) Students will be able to express and interpret information and ideas.
 * 1) Communication is no longer writing a report or making a phone call. Web 2.0 helps prepare students for the real world and incorporating new technologies into their communications archive.
 * 2) Web 2.0 allows for different approaches to communication. Students can now communicate with other students across the country on the other side of the world. Students can create videos on a topic and share with the world. Students can create a blog about a novel. There are many options for students to update their technology skills.
 * 3) This type of communication is changing the way teachers teach. Instead of a written report, teachers make ask for a more in depth look at a topic through a specific outlet or media. Reports are now set to music, stories take place in different eras, and work is completed in electronic formats rather than through pen and paper.
 * 1) e-portfolios
 * 2) blogs
 * 3) wikis
 * 4) podcasts
 * 1) Teaching styles will change from more teacher led to more student focused learning.
 * 2) Differentiated learning will become much more the norm within classrooms.
 * 3) Teaching to different learning styles will become easier to achieve.
 * 1) Education becomes more "hands on, but so much technology falls into Web 2.0 that it can be difficult for teachers to be experienced with each on and incorporate them all within their classrooms.
 * 2) Students still need to fine tune reading and writing skills, which are the basis of communication. Balancing fundamentals and Web 2.0 technologies is a fine balance, and can be difficult.

1. Identify/define standard Teachers will be able to connect students from all over the world and put them into project teams. This gives students the opportunity to learn from not only the teacher but from the knowledge and experience of the other students.
 * Working on Teams**

2. How do Web 2.0 tools make the standard easier to incorporate in the classroom Web 2.0 tools are the easiest and most efficient way for teachers to incorporate teamwork into their online classes. Although online teamwork technologies have been around for sometime, new technologies offer countless ways for teachers to connect and team up their students.

3. Examples


 * Moodle
 * Illuminate
 * Twiducate
 * Togetherville

4. What this means for education Teachers will be able to group their students into to teams for projects. Web 2.0 will give teachers and students the opportunity to be in separate parts of the united states or world, but interact as if they were in the same room.

5. Challenges Although web 2.0 offers the opportunity for students to work together it is not as good as face to face interaction. Teachers will have to overcome the deficiencies of online teamwork projects. 1. Identify/define standard Students will be able to make connections between content areas as well as connections between different learning modes (auditory, kinestetic, ect.) 2. How do Web 2.0 tools make the standard easier to incorporate in the classroom Web 2.0 tools help students use information in a different way, they incorporate several aspects of a project in order to make connections across content. These programs also allow students to add audio and visual aspects to truly use their senses. 3. Examples Prezi, blogs, e-potfolios 4. What this means for education Teachers will be able to better reach students with all types of learning styles. Teachers can work together (across content) to help students make deeper connections to aid them in remembering the information. Students may be expected to remember and use these tools later in life (become a norm) 5. Challenges All students must have access to the resources. All teachers will have to be trained on the Web 2.0 programs. Teachers will need professional development time for collaboration in order to make the content connections.
 * Making connections**