Thing 6: The future of Web 2.0

I had to control myself to keep from adding too many feeds to my reader. I don't want to overwhelm myself, but there are a lot of great educator blogs out there. I notices that several of them have been posting about the ISTE conference that is going on in Colorado. I am jealous! It looks to be like a great event. Next year it is in Philly and I am already thinking about going.

One blog I have discovered is called The Thinking Stick. JEff Utecht is the blogger and he wrote a post today about a conference session titled Are Wikis Dying? The idea is that with the development of Google Apps and Google Wave, etc., maybe they will replace wikis as the collaborative tools of the future. The answer to the question is unclear, but I think there is a greater lesson to be learned. As educators, we can't be too focused on teaching students specific tools, because the tools are constantly changing. Instead we need to focus on the thought process that goes into learning any new web 2.0 tool. That way they will be prepared for anything the web can throw at them.