I believe that, though the podcast supported it, Twitter is not the best Web 2.0 technology to be used in the classroom. I agree that, as the podcast said, it is useful for keeping up to date and contacting people. However, the question of privacy is a very big one when it comes to minors. A Web 2.0 tool that I definitely support is Prezi. Most of you students will have to create presentations in the future, be it in higher education or in the workplace, and Prezi is a great way to make creative and interactive presentations that stand out from the typical MS Powerpoint presentation.
Something that I will definitely use when teaching is Google. This can come in a variety of forms, from the knowledgeable and peer-reviewed Scholar to the interactivity and ease of Google Drive, Docs, Slides, and Sheets. Google Scholar has been known to have advanced and current research in all of the pedagogical areas, from neuroscience to music theory. Meanwhile - Google Drive, Docs, Slides, and Sheets are all easily accessible to multiple people at once, making group projects painless as well as allow you to reopen your work from any device to allow you to easily switch computers. I would willingly assign my students a group project presentation reviewing any article that interests them from Scholar.
I believe online learning, in general, will become a very big part of education. From the rising popularity of MOOC to state mandated online classes to learning tutorials on YouTube, many students have taken to the ease of learning online. It allows students to find a variety of different teaching methods on the same subject until they arrive at the one that works best for them. As an educator, this could possibly be used by putting together an archive of helpful tutorials and pages to supplement each lesson and help students with homework.
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