Thing #5

School 2.0 can be a great idea for the future in schools and education in general. I say this because, it can provide a way for many generations throughout many countries a way to not only get information, but also to give it. For example, a person in a foreign country may have an idea that they may not have completely thought through or may need help figuring out the how to's to complete the idea. Well if that person post the idea and it is opened to the public, someone from another country can give supporting ideas on how to complete this idea. Imagine the possibilities, we could cure cancer, fly into other galaxies, and more by building on others ideas. All this can happen with simply posting comments on other ideas. This can be applied to school in that it can be a way to open up classroom discussions and provide a multitude of information for students. And now students won't even have to be in class to learn this information. They can be in totally different countries and taking class here in the United States. They can attend lectures that are posted online also. This influx of information has changed the way that people are learning and the amount that they are learning. Now students can learn after leaving the classroom by continuing discussions, checking their smart phones or ipads. It has provided us with so much information that I now worry about how to sort through it all. How do you tell which information is correct or valid? We are going to need to set new requirements for the way that we are going to obtain information in the future, whether the information is scholarly or just someone's "expert" opinion. I can see how much Web 2.0 is going to help with the way students are learning. I can also see how much it is going to affect the amount of time students are going to have to work on finding the correct information for what they are needing. Too much information is not always a good thing!