Thing 5
Question 1: What does "School 2.0" mean to you?
Question 2: What does it mean for schools of the future?
To me, School 2.0 is a wonderful, well-thought, and brilliant idea! When I say this, I take into consideration how my generation and the generations to come are acquainted to technology, especially the World Wide Web. The classrooms that we once new are changing on a daily basis, they are becoming more modified to fit the standards of children who were born during Generation Z. Those children will be accustomed to a completely different classroom atmosphere compared to that of their parents. The proposal of School 2.0 is to allow children to take what the learn at school and incorporate it into their lives at home and out into their communities. With this children will be able to learn in a variety of different ways, whether it be tech savvy or the pencil-and-paper method; they will be able to integrate everything they are learning and use it out in the real world.
The idea of School 2.0 is a great opportunity that children should take advantage of, however, it all depends on the teacher, and how he or she will introduce technology into their classroom. There was a great, headlining quote in one of the articles I read from NMC Horizon Report, The 2012 K-12 Edition; it stated:
"The future is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed."
-William Gibson
This follows along with my statement above; not only must teachers introduce technology to the class, but there are chances that the school system or home do not have the opportunities to hand out tech-savy items as much as others. This is perhaps why School 2.0 works for some areas more than others, not only in the United States, but around the world. Hopefully, sometime in the future, School 2.0 will be integrated into almost all classrooms. One thing I know for certain is: the outlook for the future will be a million times different than what is happening right now. Perhaps in fifty years it will not be called School 2.0 any more, instead it might be called School 5.0.
I enjoyed reading your explanation for thing five. Our generation and the generation before us are so and will be high tech chaffy.
ReplyDeleteChildren are becoming so much smarter and technology has played a big part in it. Now a days to keep a child calm, parents give them their iPad with an educational television show on it. future teachers will have no chose by to introduce technology and allow them to use it to enhance their learning.