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toc =**What is Web 2.0 and why do I want to know?**= == “There is one thing worse than not being able to see. Being able to see, but having no vision.” - Helen Keller

The world is changing. We have to prepare our students for their future, not for our past.

Workshop Description
This workshop is designed for teachers who are already familiar with the internet. Active learning, knowledge construction, collaboration, reflection - we strive to achieve this in our classes. But how do we harness students’ energies towards those goals? Ubiquitous technology in their environment and ours poses new challenges yet offers new opportunities in this regard. To become global citizens in a global world, our students need to know how to use technology more deeply to communicate and collaborate. They need to engage in reading and writing in today’s modalities, to learn to interact/react with people/ideas from different cultures and understand the many points of view that they are exposed to. They need to learn to make meaning, make sense and build knowledge. And they need to do it with the tools that will be theirs in their future. In this hands-on workshop we will uncover a selection of tools that can help us work on these and other important/challenging educational goals. These Internet-based tools can help us create learning environments that tap into student interest and motivation by facilitating the implementation of a student-centered learning process. And as a bonus, these are tools that can easily become part of your and their personal life. Please bring your own laptop if you have one.

5 Cs
**Collaboration, Communication, Construction, Creation and Content **
 * Web 2.0 tools allow you to collaborate with people outside your classroom walls.
 * Students become creators of content, not just users.
 * They have to learn to communicate appropriately with a world audience.
 * Web 2.0 tools allow for co-construction - sharing and clarifying ideas, joint research, hearing different points of view....
 * Students can create - through writing, images, moving images and share their stories.
 * It is about deeper learning - not just skimming the surface.

Shift Happens
The Powerpoint below was an adaptation of one made by Karl Fisch of Colorado. His willingness to share it and have it adapted is just one example of the sharing and connections happening through the new read/write web. media type="youtube" key="pMcfrLYDm2U&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" Also available on [|TeacherTube]

[|The Fischbowl: Did you know?] Did You Know was originally created by Karl Fisch for the opening meeting at his school in 2006. The site above links to the original version with information about where he found the statistics.

You can find out more information about this version at http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/ It is licensed by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and XPLANE under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license A wiki has been set up with suggestions for the use of the video.

What is Web 2.0?
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A Brave New World Wide Web
David Truss shares his personal learning journey. media type="youtube" key="gyPQ4Qr8xks" height="344" width="425" http://blip.tv/file/1262079/

Learn more
Watch some other inspirational videos linked from the [|LEARN] site