Thing 5

After reading the articles Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators, and Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education I have come to agree with the fact that the internet is the only resource people need anymore. So much information can be accessed from the internet that resources like books, newspapers and such have become obselete in the hard copy form because the information contained in them has been uploaded to the internet. I grew up in the age where computers were first being introduced into schools. I can remember in elementary school playing educational games on them but not being able to do much with the internet because it was not a neccesity yet. As I went further into my schooling the internet grew and by the time I was in middle school we were using the internet for everything. Of course some of my older teachers still required resources such as books and newspapers to be used in our papers but that slowly died out. Children growing up today do not realize how important and how dangerous the internet is. I believe an internet saftey and usage class should be implemented into schools because the internet is every changing and students have a hard time understanding how permanent the information they are uploading is. In the internet is an intelligent tool and has essentially become a community linking the world together. Educators should take advantage of these new global resources and educate their students on the world and not just what is around them, that to me is what School 2.0 means. Schools are going to have to continually change as the internet does to stay on top of what is going on in the world, especially as educators because your students will know the changes before you will if you do not keep up with them. In my 21 years the internet has gone from barely exisiting to being a neccesity for every day life it seems. Who knows how it will evolve in the next 21 years but as Educators we must follow it and educate ourselves on the changes so we can effectively educate our students.