Web 2.0
This article describes in detail the type of learning that has been the standard for generations and how it can be change to better fit this new 21st century generation. We need to evolve from the book and blackboard type of learning to the interactive and collective learning using technology and the resource of other people. Sites such as Wikipedia are already leaning in this direction, allowing people in general to come up with and share things they have learned. Personally I feel that this article speaks fact in that the idea behind Web 2.0 is true and needed. I my self being the front end of the new generation of Net users, I know that books and classroom lectures are starting to become things of the past and aren't doing as good of a job in educating the young as would using resource included in Web 2.0. The thesis behind the article to me is logical. I have seen first hand what the basics of E-Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0 can do for the learner. As for my own professional development, I can see Web 2.0 aplications teaching me in a way that I can establish connections with others while I'm at school and have a head start the new technologies that are need in the professional world.
Skills 2.0
This article is very similar to the Web 2.0 article. instead of describing the philosophy of Web 2.0 in detail, this article explains more of how to integrate or use this resource in our professional life. AS they state in the article we must collaborate with one another to make Web 2.0 work. We must face the fact that we can't know everything there is to know, but instead we can have a network of friends to help share the knowledge of one field to the next. I feel if we embrace this resource and more fully use it, we can do things in the professional world better and faster. If we limit our knowledge to just those around us we will not have that diverse of information. But if we extend our network world wide, our knowledge becomes that much greater from the people we know.
Skills 2.0
This article is very similar to the Web 2.0 article. instead of describing the philosophy of Web 2.0 in detail, this article explains more of how to integrate or use this resource in our professional life. AS they state in the article we must collaborate with one another to make Web 2.0 work. We must face the fact that we can't know everything there is to know, but instead we can have a network of friends to help share the knowledge of one field to the next. I feel if we embrace this resource and more fully use it, we can do things in the professional world better and faster. If we limit our knowledge to just those around us we will not have that diverse of information. But if we extend our network world wide, our knowledge becomes that much greater from the people we know.
