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About the Class: |
In a world of big challenges, an area of positive significant change has been the growing use of the Internet as a platform for active, authentic learning and effective constructivist teaching.
This session will discuss how new Web 2.0 technologies change the face and texture of education, open its borders and transform the meaning of learning and teaching in the information era. The session will first develop the analogy between Web 1.0 and Teaching 1.0. It will then discuss Web 2.0 and the corresponding potential of Teaching 2.0. Parallel to Web 1.0, the first internet paradigm aimed at the publishing of information.
Teaching 1.0 (i.e., traditional teaching) represents the authoritative, controlling, dominant environment separating those who own the information and those who passively observe it. Web 2.0 represents not only an array of dramatically different technologies, but it reflects a dramatically different underlying philosophy that informs what these technologies facilitate, namely synergism through full participation and rich interaction and high accessibility. This platform fits naturally with the earlier evolution in education of approaches sharing a similar philosophy. Constructivist teaching engages in mutual learning, high participation and involvement and that views learning as interactive, learner active and alive. Constructivist teaching was bounded by traditional limits to information access. Teaching 2.0 is the natural meshing of constructivist teaching with the emerging Web 2.0 technologies. Teaching 2.0 opens the educational boundaries for both teachers and learners; it suggests the new, limitless venues for both teaching and learning, makes them equally active in the process of free, creative, and collaborative search and use of the information. It changes the dynamics of the educational process, naturally transforming it to the constructivist platform where learners use the Web 2.0 tools to make meaning of the flowing information; they collaborate, communicate, produce and perform.
Who all should Attend: Teachers, teacher candidates, Web 2.0 designers, college professors, all who are interested in the emerging changes in teaching and the potential for improving education by freeing learning from previous constraints.
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About the presenter:
Ludmila Smirnova
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Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y. Prior to coming to the U.S., she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. She played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools” in Southern part of Russia. A number of her Ph.D. students and scores of Masters students worked with her to produce comparative studies of successful innovative efforts in education. Dr. Smirnova has been a Montessori trainer, and has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia, Holland and the U.S.
Moving to the U.S. in 2000, she brought this focus on innovation into the realm of emerging Web technology, where she quickly became recognized for her leadership in Web applications to education. She has used her own teaching to drive her learning, regularly offering such courses as Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching, Nature of Schools and Society and Teaching with Technology.
Beyond the seventy books and other publications she prepared in Russia, Dr. Smirnova has written for and presented to a growing list of professional audiences in the U.S. She has ran workshops on application of Smart Technologies (Smart Board) and Web 2.0 tools to the American classroom for faculty and teachers from education programs across the northeast and recently, in Mexico.
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