learning 2.0 response

The article by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach brings up the topic of Learning 2.0. I feel that learning is learning. The methods and tools that we use will always continue to change. I was thinking today about a letter I read once that was written by a politician complaining that students couldn't properly sharpen a quill. ( I regret that I cannot attribute that to its author.) the point I try to make is that just like we do not need to know how to sharpen a quill or fill an fountain pen, there are many skills that seem important to us that will be irrelevant in the lives of our students.

I agree whole heartedly with this comment from Jane Nicholls:

My thoughts on learning is that we are not up to learning 2, we are up to about learning 200 and losing count. Learning changes as society and needs change. We can revamp schools and call that school 2, we can improve on the web as technology changes and call that Web 2, but learning has always been evolving and has been around a lot longer than either school or the web.

We will always need to evolve. As teachers, it will be necessary to be life long learners and to swallow our pride a bit as we learn from our students. My own children at home laugh when they think about the fact that I am the tech specialist at my school. They know my abilities and they know how far removed I am from there techno savy world. And yet, I am truly one of the most computer literate educators in our building.

We will need to evolve, keep up, and keep on!