WHAT+&+WHY

=//**What**// is Web 2.0 and //Why// is it important to my students/to me? How do I implement them?=

**WHAT**
Web 2.0 is generally defined as the "second generation" of the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 tools are characterized by their social interactive characteristics that allow users to create, collaborate, share, and publish.

**WHY**
Students who are able to particpate in Web 2.0 technology by creating, collaborating, sharing and publishing will employ the higher levels of Thinking skills in the Revised Blooms Taxonomy. "It is generally agreed that active, rather than passive, learners are better able to understand complex material and can more effectively transfer infation and concepts learned in one setting to the process of solving problems encounter in another." (Berger, 11)

Media and Technology
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 * Just as media and technology are integrated in school and life in the twenty-first century, skills related to media use (both critical analysis and production of media) are integrated throughout the standards.

**HOW?**
The most effective use of any web 2.0 tool is seemless and invisible. The web 2.0 tool is merely supporting or enhancing the excellent challenges that highly effective teachers engage their students with.

Bloom DIGITAL Taxonomy

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A wonderful wiki that organizes the whole thing; Educational Origami Wiki