DigiSkills grou.ps

OK ... though I've hanging around computers since the mid-70's ... and have been actively blogging, etc for several years, but I am relatively new to Web 2.0 ... so I think I bring a bit of the perspective of the novice. The first thing that comes to mind -- after the rush of exciting discovery -- is that it is overwhelming. Then I begin to think that many (most?) of the Web 2.0 techies that I am now reviewing are so into what is new and "cutting edge" that focusing on a coherent strategy for building the Web 2.0 classroom/playground gets lost in the maelstrom. (I am sure I am not the first nor will I be the last to say this.) And my own initial rush of excitement was from the discovery of all the new toys/tools to play with ... and I got caught up in the Oklahoma landrush of new ideas and concepts and sites and and and ... Don't you think that somewhere along the line we have to come up with "model" classrooms/playgrounds (doesn't have to even be just one per grade/age group) but each one organized as a coherent set of tools/toys that a teacher/instructor/parent/mentor/student knows that by using this specific set he/she can work through the -- for example -- 3rd grade readin...... [ Read the rest of this story ]