According to the podcast, Web 2.0 tools are more complex and interactive internet tools than older Web 1.0 tools.
One Web 2.0 I think alter ego teacher me would use in the classroom would be YouTube. As a student, I used YouTube all the time for things like tutorials on solving math problems or reviews for history tests.
Alter ego teacher me would probably be a government or history teacher and my favorite resource has always been Crash Course, which is free on YouTube (we'll come back to Crash Course later).
There are so many different videos on YouTube that are relevant to history/government. From videos of speeches to documentaries, YouTube offers a wide variety of resources.
As a teacher, it would be really awesome to show these videos at the beginning of a lesson and then at the end as both a preview and summary of the material covered in class.
As an example of a web tool, I'm going to continue my discussion of Crash Course....'cause I promised we'd come back to it. Here is a link to one of their videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo
Not only is John Green hilarious, but the videos are always super informative and provide good overviews of the materials taught in class. This particular video series (Crash Course World History) is one that I watched countless time in my Sophomore year of high school to prepare for the AP World History Exam.
The comment section of these YouTube courses is also great because there is a community of historians who will answer posed questions. It's a great resource that alter ego teacher me would get a lot of use from.
The most promising future technology mentioned in the textbook are the augmented reality tools. Assuming that alter ego teacher me is a history teacher, what better way to teach students about other place in the world than by actually letting them explore them?
My brother has a pair of Samsung Virtual Reality goggles and I have used them to skydive, cage dive with great white sharks (which is on my bucket list irl), and walk down the Champs-Élysées in Paris. While the ways in which I used them may not have been educational, it is easy to see how there is an endless possibility of educational uses.
To sum it up, in the words of John Green, don't forget to be awesome.
I agree that you tube is a very resourceful site. I use you tube to learn all kinds of things, education wise, makeup, cooking, and hairstyles.
ReplyDeleteI have used Crash Course for so many different classes and I love his approach to different topics. I think that this would be a great resource to use in the classroom that would be engaging and informative for students
ReplyDeleteCrash Course is honestly my favorite. I took 8 AP classes in high school and used it to study/review for every single one.
DeleteYou have a great "voice" in your blogs. If you were to pursue blogging, I expect you would collect quite a following.
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