Blog #2

http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193200296

A Day in the Life of Web 2.0

By: David Warlick

REVIEW
This article can best be reviewed by stating the title: A Day in the Life of Web 2.0. Basically, Warlick’s article gives the reader many different perspectives of technology in the classroom. He mentions the teachers and their collaborations through blogs, wiki’s and the Internet. Many opinions from the students were also shared. The students benefited not only from the prepared lessons given by the teacher, but from looking at each other’s work as well.

COMMENTARY/OPINION
This article paints a very picturesque scene within a school. All the students are happy. All of the teachers seem to know how to use differing technologies in their classrooms. Even the “veteran English teacher” down the hall knows what a wiki is. I can’t help but feel like this kind of setting is completely unrealistic for the current time.

To start, veteran teachers often reject the use of new technology because they are usually set in their ways. All students are not necessarily technologically inclined because some still do not have full time access to a computer.

This author may be envisioning a place like Perfect (Often talked about fictitiously on Walgreen’s commercials). I could just hear it now: “Where all of the students are in jubilant moods and all of the teachers have working computers in their classrooms…”

In addition, I noted that the last line of this article states that the author is a blogger, podcaster and programmer. He forgot to add naïve dreamer to the list…