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Digital Age Assessment: Learning in Web 2.0 (NECC 09)
How do we assess students’ learning in these in Web 2.0 environments? We want to go beyond assessing the mere mechanics of using these tools; unfortunately, most current rubrics for Web 2.0 learning...
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21st Century Skills Learning and Web 2.0
I’ve noticed that many “Web 2.0″-based learning experiences are not 21st century skills-based. For example, students can twitter about a novel but if their comments are simply plot summaries then they...
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Assessing Web 2.0 Projects Through Bloom And Time
I offer the following mini-assessment of any Web 2.0 project as a way to refocus our attention on student learning rather than the Web 2.0 tool. Take the highest level of Bloom achieved during the...
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Assessing Learning with Web 2.0: Social Bookmarking
I was talking to teacher who was so proud of the social bookmarking his students had done. They had collected over 60 links about the topic they were studying. I asked him if they had agreed on what...
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Moving Toward Collective Intelligence from Collective Stupidity Part 1
A critical aspect of Web 2.0 is the concept that when people are connected, they create a collective intelligence. I would like to offer another view. Science shows us that water will move to the...
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Let’s Show, Not Tell
In a few weeks I’m off to Costa Rica to take pictures to supplement the Costa Rican cultural information and to show the Spanish vocabulary in the Spanish textbook that I use. Although I can tell...
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Purposeful Web 2.0 -Texting
A grandfather and grandmother recently had their teenage grandson with them for the weekend. The grandfather asked the grandson to help him straighten out the garage. Two people were needed to lift...
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Web 2.0 = Social Networking, Not Social Learning
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710139,00.html A study by the Hans Bredow Institute entitled “Growing Up With the Social Web” was particularly thorough in its approach. In addition...
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Meaningful Web 2.0 Tools Listings, Please
In searching for a good free web 2.0 program for making stories, I’ve found some common disturbing trends. Often people simply list the tool’s name without even explaining what that program does....
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Make classroom Web 2.0 use interactive, not static
I thought that Web 2.0 was all about interactivity- someone does something and others respond. However, I’ve noticed that numerous Web 2.0 programs are used primarily in a one way mode (publish and...
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