Web 2.0 Educator

I took the time to read both of the web 2.0-using educators, and decided that I would like to reflect on Cool Cat Teacher Vicki Davis. She is an adamant teacher who believes whole heartedly that flattening the classroom is one of the best things that a teacher can do for his or her students. Flattening the classroom pertains to finding new and effective was to communicate with the world using technology. Vicki wants to continue supplying teachers, and others, with the technical knowledge they need to be able to make an impact on the people surrounding them. Although, Vicki realizes that keeping up with technology is like running in a race where the finish line never gets any closer, she remains committed to the race for the sake of children who she impacts every day. It is no great surprise that Vicki’s specialty is teaching a computer based technology class. Some of the projects she uses to teach her students include www.classtools.net, which allows the students to design a game that helps them study for a test, wiki’s for students to post his or her work on, and blogs for students to write and communicate with each other. I hope that my fear of technology will cease so that I can develop teaching methods that have proven to be great learning experiences in Vicki’s classroom. In one of her blogs she writes “I’d rather be a visionary than blindsided” and I couldn’t agree with her more.