The document discusses literacy in the context of Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on education. It contrasts traditional print-based literacy practices with new digital literacies required to solve problems using vast online information. Specifically, it examines how Web 2.0 allows for user-generated content and social, collaborative learning compared to the more static Web 1.0. The document advocates assessing current practices, using technologies like blogs and wikis that support social learning, and providing teacher professional development, to cultivate new digital literacies aligned with skills like networking, simulation and collective intelligence.

1. Web 2.0 Literacy and Secondary Teacher Education

6. Internet Use in Classrooms (Web 2.0) Internet Use Outside Classrooms Content retrieval & consumption Content creation & production Access mediated by teacher Access unmediated Production as evidence of consumption Production as genuine contribution Enculturation into pre-ordained “culture” Enculturation into affinity group cultures Text privileged Multimodal systems privileged Teacher as guide on the side Distributed and collective expertise Individual Collaborative User standardization User customization Linear, logical, static progression Non-linear, logical, dynamic progression

7. Technology Trend Example Significance Grassroots Video YouTube multimodal learning (audio, video, text) Collaboration Webs wikis organized around people more than content, anyone contributes Mobile Broadband smartphones ubiquitous organization, applications for everything! Data Mashups Google Map Apps challenges how we represent and understand data Collective Intelligence Wikipedia expertise of many valued and rewarded; teachers less so Social Operating Systems LinkedIn or Facebook students “practice” tools useful for networking, communicating

8. Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 World Book Online Wikipedia Favorites/bookmarks Delicious/social bookmarks personal website blogs list servs/retrieval RSS Feeds content management system wikis directories (taxonomy) tagging (folksonomy) Walgreens photos online Flickr publishing participating