Thing 1

So after reading the article, A Day in the Life of Web 2.0, I find myself thinking what I have been thinking for the past couple of years. This all sounds great but in the real world my abilty to integrate technology is severly limited by the available technology in my school. If I had a computer lab available to me everyday - more of this would possible. If all of my students had computers at home - more of this would be possible. If more of my students lived within walking distance of our public library - more of this would be possible. If my district did not have a 3 mile thick firewall on everything that we do on the internet within our classrooms and labs - more of this would be possible. I would love to believe that by learning more about these 23 things that things will be better for my students but until the technology within the school and the community catches up with that of the Web 2.0 I am not sure how much change I can really make.
I am not dismissing the fact that my own children (ages 4 & 6) will be impacted by the Web 2.0. I feel though that I, as their mother, will have a greater impact on their ability to utilize these things in their education than their classroom teachers will. I suppose that this backs up the importance of the parent as every childs first teacher.