Using the Web to Enhance Learning

So, where were we? Educators are preparing our students for the 21st Century. Children beginning school today will enter a world where there are more honors students in India than we even have students in the U.S. So what does the future of education look like in the U.S.? In the near future it will involve a massive increase in the inclusion and use of the world wide web in America's classrooms. What's more , students will necessarily move from reading the web - like using browsers and search enginges to find info-- into writing the web by creating blogs, social spaces, wikis and even changing the info that is searched and gathered. Web evangelist Will Richardson in his book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other powerful Web Tools for Classrooms spells it all out, "(students) are no longer limited to being independent readers or consumers of information; as we'll see, (they) can be collaborators in the creation of large storehouses of information." (2009,2)
A course in blogging , wiki management, or podcast training? Which teachers or librarians will take this on? Will all teachers have to? Will it be as essential as reading and writing across the curriculum?