23 Mar, 2007
Something That Everyone Does With Their Friends
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Read/Write Web| Social Web
I ran across an article today on kotte.org that made me think a bit. The article itself is about Web 2.0 and how it became important, but one thing said really stuck out to me in regard to education and technology.
A slightly related way of thinking about how to choose web projects is to take something that everyone does with their friends and make it public and permanent.
This is a great synopsis of what motivates students to use technology today. They have something they normally do with their friends and make it public and permanent.
Often (for good or bad) we as educators take over and try to take this ’something that everybody does with their friends’ that is not ‘public and permanent’ and apply it to the classroom. Sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn’t. I will leave the examples up to the reader’s mind this time (I have to actually get some work done around here), but the article points out four good Web 2.0 examples… Blogger, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. I know at least three of them have been applied to education… still not sure about Twitter…
