Digital Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0
Welcome to my site for teachers who believe in the power of technology as a learning tool and a teaching tool. A while ago, one of my students showed me this. I wrote about him in my personal statement when applying to the Ph.D. program at Stony Brook University. His story inspires me to keep going as much today as it did three years ago. Click to read about Marcus.
What is Web 2.0? It is the interactive Internet. Web 2.0 refers to the ways we can now interact with the internet. Rather than static web pages (Web 1.0) Web 2.0 refers to the dynamic, interactive experience of a “two-way” internet. This means that our students have more opportunities than ever to become consumers and composers of information.
“It has been said that if a physician from 1900 visited a modern-day hospital, he would be stunned by the changes; but if an English teacher from 1900 visited a school today, he or she would feel strangely at home”
--Thomas Newkirk
Our world is changing, why isn’t our teaching?
“In all of our attempts to move forward, we haven’t looked to our kids to see what the possibilities are for merging what they know about technology with what we know about what it means to read and write well”
--Sara Kadjer
Hello and welcome to Digital Learning with Web 2.0. I am Nicole Galante, a teacher of English at Bay Shore Senior High School, a Ph.D. student in English at Stony Brook University, an Associate Editor for N.C.T.E.’s English Journal, an educational consultant for several organizations, and a lover of teaching and learning.
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Read These Now:
Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind
Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat
Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future
Digital Teaching and Learning