Thing #5.

Thing #5 requires us to analyze what School 2.0 means to me and what it means for the future of our students. From my perspective as a classroom teacher, I can envision the use of Web 2.0 tools becoming more and more prevalent in lesson plans. Our culture is so dependent on connectedness and web 2.0 sites encourage it. Plus, many of the 2.0 tools you may find on the Internet perform many of the same functions as high-priced software, but for free. Obviously teachers on a tight school and personal budget will be drawn to this. So School 2.0 represents a merging of the two worlds...the academic rigor of school crossed with the convenience and low-cost of Web 2.0 tools. And this IS the future of our schools. For me, it is already the present. In my online graduate classes, I have been introduced to countless web 2.0 sites with a myriad of functions. You can do basically anything you want to on the Internet.