Thing #5

       So Thing #5 makes me think a lot about the future of our schools and the education system. The listings that we had to read were very interesting and made many good points. The internet has only barely scratched the surface of its potential. If more people would post their ideas and thoughts online instead of just browsing through and reading, the internet would thrive with amazing ideas and people using other people to develop incredible products and tools that could change the world forever. I feel like it is our job as teachers to really encourage that mindset to our students and to push them to think creatively and not settle for what is already put in front of them but to push the envelope and try to find better and easier ways to do things and then make them known to the world in order to accomplish great things.

What does School 2.0 mean to you?

       School 2.0 means that students learn anyway they can. Whatever way is easiest and most effective from them, that's how they should learn. With all of this vast amount of technology available to us at our fingertips we as teachers can use it to our advantage to help our students grasp material and truly understand and learn it.

What does it mean for schools of the future?

       I think I sorta said it in my last response, but I think that we need to evolve our teaching methods and standards in order to improve education. Now students are taught, here's the question, do the work, and give the answer. Oh! and the answers are in the back, but don't look! When really we should be encouraging them to look up answers to questions. We should be encouraging our students to use the resources available to them so that they can solve problems they don't understand because that's how problems are solved in the real world and that, is what we spend years of their lives trying to prepare them for. So are we really preparing them if we are discouraging them from working smarter not harder? Aren't we really handicapping them from being competitive from the rest of the world?