Feb 16 2007
About School 2.0
About Maggie
Maggie is a passionate School 2.0 (social media) activist for teaching and learning and believes that educators need to incorporate social media tools into their teaching strategies in order to effectively engage a new generation of learners. She has delivered numerous papers, keynotes, conducted workshops and developed resources to assist teachers to effectively use ICT and social media for professional development and in their classrooms. She facilitates various online learning communities for teachers and is in the top 100 “twitterati” in South Africa. She has been involved in various ICT training initiatives for subject advisors, teachers and lecturers and consults to the Department of Education, schools and various Universities. She is currently developing ICT e-learning materials for the Commonwealth of Learning. For more information see her blog at www.school2.co.za or follow her learning tweets at www.twitter.com/maggiev
What is school2.co.za all about?
School2.co.za is my reflection blog where I record and share my learning and teaching explorations with Web 2.0 tools and ICT in education in general. It is a springboard from where I collect and link resources and people, do reviews and report on problems and successes!
For a 1 page CV click here.
What is School 2.0?
School 2.0 is all about why and how we can use Web 2.0 tools in support of teaching and learning.
Media Literacy
- “Media literacy is the notion that learning how to use new media technologies, online collaboration tools, personal publishing and live video streaming gear is not just about being cool and hip but it is a set of fundamental skills every young person should be equipped with to be able to navigate the digital realities increasingly surrounding us.”
Robin Good from “New Media Literacy In Education: Learning Media Use While Developing Critical Thinking Skills” - Flat Classrooms
“In many cases, students communicate more, construct original content more, and more often collaborate virtually with other people, than do their teachers. Those teachers who pretend to stand on higher ground, appear, to many of their students, to be standing on quicksand.”
School 2.0 Websites, blogs, wikis and networks of interest:
- SAschools (Wiki for South African teachers, principles and ICT managers)
We have created this wiki to look at practical issues regarding firewalls at schools, Acceptable use policies….. - Web 2.0 Tutorial for educators (Wiki)
- http://school20.ning.com/ (SN)
School 2.0 goes beyond the practical discussion of applying the read/write and collaborative Web technologies in the classroom. It is, instead, a larger discussions of how education, learning, and our physical school spaces can (or should) change because of the changing nature of our social and economic lives brought on by these technologies. - http://classroom20.ning.com/ (SN)
A social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
To keep track of School 2.0 resources, click on this del.icio.us links:
(When you find a site or resource that you feel would be relevant for this school 2.0 topics, tag it as “school2.0″
