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The Magnolia 2.0 Camp is focused on organizing a community of learners who are focused on using web 2.0 tools in the classroom. The tools that we refer to as web 2.0 represent a major shift in the way that we acquire, process, and deliver information. It is an indicator of the way that this information rich environment that we live in. Sara Armstrong and David Warlick wrote an article discussing the new literacies that our students need to know in the information age. Key among them are the need to be able to acquire knowledge and evaluate it. In a world where millions of pages are written on millions of subjects, students will need to be able to sift though the flood of data to find the really meaningful information. They will need to be able to process that data with a variety of methods. They will need to be able to present that information effectively in ways that make it available and easily accessible to others. Then they will have to manage the ethical dilemmas that easy access to portable information poses. All of these literacies are employed in the use of web 2.0 tools by professionals today. This gives us an idea of how important these new literacies will be for our students when they become professionals. [|The New Literacy] by Sara Armstrong and David Warlick The Machine is Us/ing Us by Mike Wesch media type="youtube" key="NLlGopyXT_g" height="344" width="425" Let's start with the idea of web 2.0. When someone mentions web 2.0, what do you think of? Are there any specific tools that you think of when you hear that term? Use the discussion tab above to discuss these questions.

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