What does Web 2.0 mean to me? From the perspectives I have read, I have come to understand Web 2.0 as being socio-platform that acts as the foundation for a new digital infrastructure. School 2.0 is just an extension of this idea that is specific to how we can use the Web 2.0 platform for education. Before Web 2.0, people had to learn how to code HTML, or rely on someone else, to post information on the web. Web 2.0 democratizes access to our global network by separating the content from the coding rules of the format. Now, anyone with access to the internet can tap into digital infrastructure.
The best summation of School 2.0 that I ran across is coined by Chris Lehman, who said School 2.0 "... is about pedagogy." I find viewing the education application of Web 2.0 through this lense of pedagogy very enlightening. It liberates educators from being constrained by proprietary software tools to the freedom of mass access, or even the freedom to re-think the meaning of effective instruction. As a social studies teacher, I can now incorporate the idea of Web 2.0 into modified Behavioral Objectives, whether in the cognitive, affective, or psyco-motor domains of learning. For example, having students create a digital collage of comparing the civil rights struggles of the Progressive Era and the 1960s transcends this from Bloom's Analysis to Synthesis. Have the students add commentary reflecting their thoughts and judgements about these eras now increases the cognitive level to Bloom's Evaluation and Krathwohl's Valuing. All of this pedagogical flexibility simply by allowing students access to the same web platform they are already mastering through social-networking on their personal time. This helps bring relevancy, not just of context, but of application and access of information.
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