Emerging Technologies Ron Faulds and Jane Perzyk MI-LIFE Project Team

Web 2.0

School 2.0

Many educators are digital immigrants

In schools where the kids are digital natives

What is Web2.0? From read to write - blogs From closed to open From push to pull From knowing information to knowing where to find information - Google (just- in-time learning)

Creating Content on Amazon Write a book review! Rate a book review!

Creating Content on eBay Rate a seller after you buy; read a rating before you buy!

Creating Content with Writely

How Has Our Way of Learning and Communicating Changed?

A Blog for School Leaders

Principal’s Blog A Principal’s Blog

A Teacher’s Blog for Kids

A Teacher’s Classroom Blog

A Milblog from Iraq

A Moblog (blog via mobile phone)

Finding Blogs -Technorati the “Google for Blogs”

Podcasts – Audio Blogs Podcasts are audio files that can be automatically delivered directly to your desktop computer or can be listened to directly from a webpage. They can be transferred to your iPod or other portable audio MP3 player. Many teachers are creating podcasts of their presentations so students can listen at home.

Podcasts in Education What’s the connection with education? Duke University, in the fall of 2004, provided iPods loaded with campus and orientation information to all incoming freshmen. Last September, Duke hosted the first Symposium on Academic Podcasting…and this is only the beginning!

Podcasts by Students Willowdale Elementary School in Omaha has podcasts created in each of its K-5 grades. Take a minute to listen to a podcast from a 5 th grade class on sound and light !

Podcasts by Teachers Geek!ed! in Pinckney, MI

Podcasts by Educational Futurists

TV Show Podcasts

The Social Internet

What’s a Wiki?

What’s a Mashup? A mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service. A mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service.

Local News and Google Maps

Crime Stats & Google Maps

Real Estate & Google Maps

Create Your Own Map

iPod Radar Mashup

Flickr – Social Photo Site

Flickr – Geotag your Photos

Furl – Social Bookmarking Site

30 Boxes– Social Calendaring Site

PixelJoint – Social Art!

What’s the Relevance to Education? The Pew Internet Report cites the fact that half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet consider themselves “content creators.” 19% have created a blog while 38% say they read blogs. 22% created webpages, and 33% shared original art or photos online.

Are they doing this in school?

U. S. DOE’s School 2.0

Web 2.0? School 2.0? It is our job as educational leaders to keep an eye on developments which will impact the way we teach and the way students learn and communicate.

How are Michigan students using MySpace?

DeLaSalle High School Warren – Age 16

Monroe Community College Katie, Age 19

Holt High School, 2005 Zombie Kay, Age 19

University of North Carolina Katelin, Age 20

Beware of the “Permanent Record”

BeNetSafe – Help for Parents

Concerns about safety have resulted in legislation DOPA - Deleting Online Predators Act DOPA - Deleting Online Predators Act COPA – Children’s Online Protection Act COPA – Children’s Online Protection Act COPPA - Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA - Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act CIPA – Children’s Internet Protection Act CIPA – Children’s Internet Protection Act

Are students concerned about DOPA and other Internet Censorship It doesn’t really impact them very well, because their school life simply isn’t real enough. They are fully satisfied with their online social experience and what they are learning there. They would fight if they perceived that there was something to lose. I suspect that there is a pretty wide disconnect between the classrooms of many our students and the real learning environment that they interact with in their personal time. David Warlick –

Internet Safety Are there advantages to Web 2.0? To the Social Internet? Are there advantages to Web 2.0? To the Social Internet? Are there disadvantages to Web 2.0? To the Social Internet? Are there disadvantages to Web 2.0? To the Social Internet?

Options? Policy!Policy!!Policy!!!