a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an
individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of
their ongoing learning experiences.
This USA Today Article give an example of how technology is being used in high school classrooms today. The traditonal whitboard is being replaced by iPads and computer programs. Most students and teachers find this benifical because it allows students to try to think and work through problems for themselves before asking instructors
Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin
digitally records her lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard,
then uploads them to iTunes and assigns them as homework
the latest way technology is changing teachers' jobs
allows students to chat online while watching the videos
attracted the attention of funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, which has become a major backer of Khan Academy, a non-profit
repository of nearly 2,400 free instructional videos that teachers use to teach
everything from pre-algebra to Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
flipped classrooms show a lot of potential, but she worries that many low-income
students don't have reliable Internet or computer access at home
all about helping students understand difficult material
made her students more independent, less-stressed learners
One of the most significant differences between Web 2.0 and the traditional
World Wide Web (retroactively referred to as Web 1.0) is greater collaboration
among Internet users and other users, content providers, and enterprises.
popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blog
dynamic encyclopedias such as Wikipedia
allow users to create and edit the content of a worldwide information database
in multiple languages
led to the proliferation of blogging. The dissemination of news evolved into
RSS.
There is no clear-cut demarcation between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 technologies,
hardware and applications
Critics of Web 2.0 maintain that it makes it too easy for the average person to
affect online content and that, as a result, the credibility, ethics and even
legality of Web content could suffer
Web 2.0 is merely a transitional phase between the early days of the World Wide
Web's existence and a more established phase they're calling Web 3.0.
Thsi article talks about the use of technology in a high school classroom setting. In some cases, technology has become the new tool of choice instead of the tradtional whiteborad and textbook.
Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin