Using Web 2.0 in School

Benefits

Authentic Experiences

Opportunity to teach responsibility

Easily accessible

Engagement

Collaboration

Reaches many learning styles

Promotes curiosity and love of learning

Opens the classroom walls

Rich, current, and up to date resources

Easy access to primary sources

Challenges

Federal Legislation

Off task behavior

Variety of inappropriate sites

Ease of access to inappropriate sites

Threat to network integrity

Bandwidth availability

Vast amounts of inaccurate information

Ways to deal with the challenges

Reasonable levels of filtering

Iprism - temporary unblocking by teacher

Time sensitive process for unblocking

Age restrictions on wide open searches

Educate parents, teachers & students

Have a clearly stated and updated AUP

Act quickly and firmly when there is a problem

Train teachers to have better classroom management