Thing 5

School 2.0 means that the students of today are not the same as the students of yesterday. Teachers cannot teach today’s students the same way that they taught yesterdays’. Students of today are using IPods, computers, game systems, smartphones, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Google, and You Tube just to name a few. School 2.0 is affecting how students learn. It helps students experiment on their own and not just memorize material. For example, instead of just giving a student a report to do on weatherization, the student could make a complete presentation with animation, figures, videos and graphs. In addition, School 2.0 is helping with communication. Students are now using Facebook, Flickr, and blogs to communicate. Teachers can now use a blog to present material to a student who may have been absent. In conclusion, the students of today have changed and I feel that the way teachers teach them has to change with them. School 2.0 gives teachers and students this possibility. It means that the future of schools with forever be transforming because the students and teachers are changing.