Technology
View the Youtube video on technology and education
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRVc3R1u1U).
What is your reaction to video? Did anything surprise you? Offend you? What issues would you like your peers to comment on from the video?
Please include outside references to support the points.
Technology and the Internet are forcing educators to change they way we look at teaching and learning. The Internet is no longer just an expansive “information
highway”, it is a way of life for many people and a requirement in many jobs. “Web 2.0? refers to this “new” way of understanding the Internet. Described by Roblyer
and Doering (2010) as “…an Internet trend that puts the design and authorship of online content into the hands of website’s users. Examples “…include blogs, wikis,
and social-networking sites where users add, modify, and share content” (p. 174). For further information on Web 2.0, please check out the following website and read
about some of the tools that are changing the way we view and consume the Internet:
