Week 10: Today I Learn, Today I Question

            This week, it was Dee’s turn to present. I think Dee may have unearthed an unpolished diamond to us (or at the very least to me) during the class. Schoology, the potential facebook for education! Although its attributes has yet been fully discovered or explored, but I’m crossing my fingers that this web 2.0 tool is the tool that has almost (if not all) the features that I’m looking for. Guessed I’ll be spending my holiday on it. ^_^

By the way, talking about tools for web 2.0, Mdm Ng did share “The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book” by Terry Freedman, and you know, a few days prior to this, Radziah, a UM course mate, too shared a similar pdf book, “Web 2.0 tools for Education: A quick guide” made locally by Mohamed Amin Ebmi, from UKM. Call it “the secret’ (made popular by Rhonda Byrne) or what? First, this Web 2.0 handbook, then the Web 2.0 tool “Schoology”, then another Web 2.0 handbook.

After watching the Web 2.0 video, thoughts flashes through: we are not embracing the potential of web 2.0 at all! Why? We are not collaborating world wide, we are not communicating with global individual, we are not providing the opportunity to our students to connect world wide in terms of education. And this prompted me to recall a video “Productivity Future Vision 2011” shared to me by my student. Somehow, this video has a profound effect on me. This video shows a vision on the way we do things/work/learn in the near future. They are envisioning the lifestyle of people embracing these technology, which prompts me to ask: what about those who don’t? What about those who doesn’t have them/couldn’t afford them? Would it create a bigger digital gap between those who embrace ICT and the rest of them?

Those who embrace it	Those who embrace not
Those who know how use it	Those who know not
Those who have it	Those who have not

Again, I find myself being asked of the many questions that was been asked in the video “Did you know 2.0?”, prominently, are we, as educator, preparing our students the  necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes for the coming era?