This is an important point for us as educators. It is not about teaching our students how to use a particular application. The application is just the vehicle for the learning. We are providing them with the skills to evaluate the tools available and to use the one most appropriate for the job. We are teaching our students how to think independently, how to research cleverly, where to locate salient and reliable information, how to decode the information and then to present it in such as way that it reinterprets those elements that are the focus of our inquiry.
http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-support-teachers.html I found this particular article interesting and only hope that I am supported by PD in using Web 2.0 tools once i'm teaching