Blog 5

It seems a shame that Web 2.0 tools are not able to be used in the classroom as a result of the ELA standards. It seems that both blogs and wikis are important tools that both could be used in the classroom to better students' learning experience. According to the podcast, blogs act as a "student publishing platform" allowing students to get experience having a digital profile in which they write material related to their subject matter, giving them a chance to care about what they are putting out onto the web. Similarly, the podcast explains that, "students can contribute their own work to wikis to engage in a collaborative learning experience." I believe that an important part of education is its collaborative elements because it allows students to add to each others ideas, strengthening them and generally leading to a greater amount of knowledge and understanding of the subject matter they are studying.

One Web 2.0 tool that I find useful is feed reader, which you can access at www.feedreader.com. This website groups various websites together giving people updates from the websites saving students time so that they do not have to go to each of these individually to check for updates. For any class in which staying up to date on a particular topic, for example a class dealing with news, or a class dealing with the weather, feedreader would be able to give students a lot of information from various sites about these things without forcing the student to go to various sites finding updates one at a time.

One technology I think would be very useful in the classroom is a technology I first learned about a few years ago when reading a book written by physicist Michio Kaku. The technology is a smart contact lens that would allow students to be tapped into the web in a virtual classroom in which they could use their eyes to click. This could potentially allow students to feel like they are in the classroom when not even in the classroom, as the contact lenses could allow students into a virtual classroom. Essentially, it is a more advanced version of google glasses. Here is the link for an article discussing these: http://www.nanalyze.com/2017/03/smart-contact-lenses/

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