Thing 1 and Thing 2

I am participating in 23 Things to learn more about the Web 2.0 and how to utilize the tools available in the classroom and in my personal life. So often it seems time is spent on the computer at work and at home repeating the same tasks. I have heard of interesting sites, but never seem to have the time to check them out. Being in a class will encourage me to make the time.

Watching the video confirmed my belief that students are learning in a different way than we are teaching. At the same time, the school presented in the article seemed like a fantasy--great in theory, but difficult to put into practice. The article did raise some practical questions: Who will provide the technology and at what cost? How to keep students on task when it is easy to be distracted by the technology? When students create a wiki, are they learning verifiable facts or some one's opinion?

Writing on the Internet for anyone to read is a different kind of experience. I know that I will be careful about what I write as it is never really deleted. At the same time, I question how many people, other than my classmates, will be interested in reading what I say.