Mr. Higgins’ Blog

This blog entry is for TEC-950: Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom

Clearly, educators play a vital role ensuring that students are prepared to be productive in the 21^st Century. Discuss the challenges educators will have in making sure their students have the literacies they will need to reach this goal. How will educators have to re-think about content and curriculum in order to promote literacy?

• Educators as whole, are going to have to deal with students who are more informed of technology than the educators.
• I really do not believe the entire argument that the text messaging and instant messaging lacks complete literacy; however, it will be interesting to see where it takes us.
• The scariest thought is that the top 10 jobs of the next 10 years have really not even been developed.  We will be hearing about some wicked degrees out there; however, it is only because they are new and at the hands of the technological world.
• The promotion of literacy and informed citizenship is going to be in the hands of parents more and more and more…