Education and Web 2.0

Through this weeks activities on Diigo, I learned about how much Diigo has to offer. The annotation option is something I definitely would use in the future. It was so cool how as a class, we could all comment on each others annotations and see what each other had to highlight about the same articles and even different ones. This site related to the weekly topic because we learned about Web 2.0. Web 2.0 are basically websites or software's educators can use to connect with their students. Such as, social media platforms. In the articles I read, I learned about how educators can inspire students through blogging. One particular teacher decided to use blogging in her classroom for assignments. Later, she realized that many of her students started to really show who they were and express themselves through these blogs. She challenges all educators to try blogging in their classrooms and see the amazing effect it could bring to your classrooms, just as it did to hers. Another article I read was about social media in the classrooms. This article talks about the benefits of social media in the classroom and how it allows students to engage and become "tech savvy." I think that social media, blogging and all forms of technology in the classroom are important. They help not only for knowledge on the rapidly growing technological world, but it also makes everything so much simpler.