Thing #5

Web 2.0 will be an invaluable tool for the future of education.

According to Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators, "55 percent of all online American young people between  the ages of 12 and 17 use social networking sites for communicating..." From this information, one can see that using technology, such as social networking sites, is a great way to reach out to students, especially within the pre-teen and teen age groups.

After reading the article, "Web 2.0 is not about version numbers or betas", I now understand that Web 2.0 is more of a description of a group of people who may not use technology as often as others - but begin to use it to aid in their daily lives. This same idea describes School 2.0. It isn't necessarily a new version of school, but it is a building on of the original - School 1.0. School 2.0 builds upon the original by adding the use of technology.

This idea isn't along the lines of, "wouldn't it be nice if we incorporated technology into the education of students?" - but becomes "we MUST incorporate technology into education".