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 * **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 || Providing web based tools for teachers and students. Skills and tolls are constentaly changing and we need to keep up with them. Tools are interconnected, interactive, used for communications and allows a community.

Students think, work, and play differently from any other generations. Students are strong belivers of techonolgy. Many schools and teachers have not yet recongnized the ways students communicate and access information over the internet. Web 2.0 tools changed the nature of the Web from distributed to participatory. The web provides services instead of packaged software.Very much changed into a world that is collaborative. ||
 * 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 || The author of the text thinks that teachers and students should be able to use the net but recomends that Web 2.0 tools on intranets so they are behind district firewalls. This limits students to collaborating only with youngsters who are already in close proximity and security. Students want to be tech savy. The students think it is another tool for them to use. ||