San+Mateo

Classroom Teacher Name
//Tell us about yourself. (What do you teach, hobbies, Interesting facts about you)// ||
 * Introduction-
 * Social Networking Tools I Use (//Blogs, Wikis, Twitter....)// ||
 * Favorite Educational Websites ||
 * Instructional Technology Goals- //(What do you want to learn or implement in your classroom.)// ||


 * Book Study**
 * **Web 2.0 New Tools, New Schools by: Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum** ||
 * **Book Study** || **Reader's Response** ||
 * Chapter 1 New World, New Web, New Skills

Chapter 2 Students and Learning

Chapter 3 New Tools ||  ||
 * Chapter 4 New Tools in Schools

Chapter 5 Professional Development

Chapter 6 Leadership and New Tools ||  ||
 * Chapter 7 Online Safety Security

Chapter 8 Systemic Issues

Chapter 9 New Schools || Chapter 9 Assumptions: The author made the assumption that education has not changed in the last few years, and that all technology will be moving into the classroom. They also assume that things are changing rapidly.

Agree: Things are changing rapidly. Students are interested in technology and teaching must change with the times.

Argue: Students have changed due to technology ie they want everything right now. There are drawbacks to having technology in classrooms. Just because the technology is there does not mean it has to be implemented in the classroom immediately.

Aspire: Teachers collaborating across the world. Differentiating the technology that is used for various students. Ways to pull all of the resources together into central place or way they can be searched ||