Leading the Change Pushing the Limits: Web 2.0 and 21st Century Learning

The K12 Online Conference is a great way for teachers to learn about new ideas of how to incorporate technology into their classrooms. The Leading the Change Pushing the Limits: Web 2.0 and 21st Century Learning conference was about how two teachers have started a 21st Century Skills pilot class. The class is made up of seniors, who each receive their own Apple MacBook laptop computer. Through out the year, blogs, wikis, open source software, networking, iMovie, the flat classroom project, and much more is Incorporated into the curriculum.

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I found this topic very interesting. When I was a senior in high school, the vocational school and three other local schools joined together to run a pilot teaching program. This is where we learned about teaching and what it is like to be a teacher. Much of the class was set up like a post secondary class, and we were able to receive college credit. With this class, we were given our own brand new IBM ThinkPad laptops. The teacher did have to go over rules with all of the students throughout the year to make sure no one was abusing their privileges, but it was a great experience. We had to write over forty papers for the class, so it made it nice to have my own computer. Also, once I graduated, I was able to buy the computer from the school for a very low price.

With more and more generations being brought up with technology, it does not surprise me that more and more personal computers are being used in the classrooms.