Part 1: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts......

At our first Kal-Tech team meeting at FHSU our assignment was to read the first two chapters of Will Richardson's book.

This is a direct quote from Chapter 1, page 5:

Without question, our ability to easily publish content online will force us to rethink the way we communicate with our constituents, the way we deliver our curriculum, and the expectations we have of our students. It also has the potential to radically change what we assume about teaching and learning, and it presents us with important questions to consider:

What needs to change about our curriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom walls?

What changes must we make in our teaching as it becomes eaasier to brig primary sources to our students?

How do we need to rethink our ideas of literacy when we must prepare our students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators as well?

How do we best put to use the reams and reams of "digital paper" that Weblogs provide?

Are we ready to create School 2.0? Chris Lehmann writes:

It's really not about the computers. School 2.0 is older than that. School 2.0 is the tradition of Dewey. School 2.0 is born out of the idea that active, engaged, constructivist learning will lead to active, engaged students and people.

It's about the pedagogy.

Can we really afford to continue to take baby steps?