K12 Online Conference

The video that I watched was a podcast called 'No Teacher Left Behind'. It was about the advantages and impact that web 2.0 can have on the world and more specifically on education. Web 2.0 makes it easy for anyone to create and post information on the internet, much easier than its web 1.0 counterpart which required one to know complex languages, such as html. Blogs, twitter, and wikipedia are examples of web 2.0 in which someone simply needs to type and click a button to get their message or information out there. It makes collaboration between colleagues vastly easier and quicker, with very little knowledge of the technology involved needed to actually use it. Children are using it so why shouldn't their educators? They need to be able to keep up with their students and see what all this new technology is all about.