Web 2.0 Love it or…

1. Web 2.0Love it or… Andrew Holmgren Cliff Paige

2. Did You Know If you are 1 in a million in China

3. There are 1300 people like you In India there are 1100 people like you

4. China will soon be the number 1 English speaking country in the world

5. During the time this presentation takes

6. 60 Babies will be born in the US 244 Babies will be born in China 351 Babies will be born in India

7. According to the US Department of Labor, workers in today’s labor force will have 10 – 14 different jobs by age 38.

8. We are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist using technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems we don’t even know are problems.

9. There are over 110 million users on My Space. It it was a country it would be the 11th largest in the world between Japan and Mexico.

10. There are 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month

11. The number of text messages sent and received each day exceeds the population of the planet.

12. By the year 2010, the information on the internet will double in size every 72 hours.

13. We need to unlearn the idea that we are the sole content experts in the classroom, because we can now connect our kids to people who know far more than we do about the material we're teaching.

14. We need to unlearn the premise that we know more than our kids, because in many cases, they can now be our teachers as well.

15. We need to unlearn the idea that learning itself is an event. In this day and age, it is a continual process.

16. We need to unlearn the strategy that collaborative work inside the classroom is enough and understand that cooperating with students from around the globe can teach relevant and powerful negotiation and team-building skills.

17. We need to unlearn the idea that every student needs to learn the same content when really what they need to learn is how to self-direct their own learning.

18. We need to unlearn the notion that our students don't need to see and understand how we ourselves learn.

19. We need to unlearn our fear of putting ourselves and our students "out there" for we've proven we can do it in safe, relevant and effective ways.

20. We need to unlearn the practice that teaches all students at the same pace. Is it any wonder why so many of our students love to play online games where they move forward at their own pace?

21. We need to unlearn the idea that we can teach our students to be literate in this world by continually blocking and filtering access to the sites and experiences they need our help to navigate.

22. We need to unlearn the premise that real change can happen just by rethinking what happens inside the school walls and understand that education is now a community undertaking on many different levels.