Suggestions

From what I’ve learned and have witnessed, I think the best way to help integrate Web 2.0 tools and skills into classrooms today is to help the teachers within schools to become more familiar with them. As stated previously, there are many instances today where students are entering classrooms with 21st Century skills that are superior to their teachers. In most instances when this occurs, teachers become reluctant to take on the challenges of becoming more literate in Web 2.0 Technology. In order to overcome this gap between what the students know and are comfortable using and what the teachers are comfortable doing in the classroom proper training is a necessity for today’s teachers. Teachers today need to have the proper training and in order to do this, Professional Development through their school or county is probably the most likely way to do this. Also opportunities for individual workshops, graduate classes and even simple demonstrations from teacher who have experience and a level of comfort working with Web 2.0 are all ways that schools can successfully help to bring teachers into the 21st Century classroom. If schools and teachers are not going to take the initiative to change the way they teach and begin to include the available technology, then we are going to fail to properly meet the needs of our students. Nearly all students are capable of being successful in what we are asking them to do, sometimes it is a matter of asking them the right way to do it to get the highest level of success out of them.
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