It is amazing to consider just how much collegial support exists in teaching. In your own school community this support has always been significant but limited to whether you had a teacher of your subject , especially in rural settings. Web 2.0 links us to the broader collegial support of teaching and the web enables me to broaden my knowledge and to obtain content that previously would have been impossible to locate or even access.
We live in exciting times and with a future of hope in the spirit of lifelong learning.
So often we are trying to look for and design differentiated lessons to meet the needs of the diverse students in our classrooms. Web 2.0 means that all learning is not teacher centred, the format of the classroom even the situation can be completely different. It means that students can look deeper into areas of interest, of which I may not have the extended knowledge or interest, or look for other ways of learning the content they need to know. We are building the classroom of the future, the forms of teaching and learning and the techniques we have grown up with means we will not be building a new old school but a learning environment for this century meeting the learning needs of the students of this century.
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