The Excitement of Web 2.0
Web 2.0
I feel like a kid who has just opened Pandora’s box and then I thought that even with a background in Greek and Roman mythology, it’s been a long, really long time and I better check the facts because I’m excited about all that this Web 2.0 has to offer.
So, glad that I refreshed my memory of Pandora and her actions, I want to bring forward to the educational setting the curiosity of Pandora that made her open the box. May we always be curious ourselves as educators and channel the curiosity of our students into productive paths, and promote the life long learner. May we constantly be aware of what the Internet has to offer in a positive environment and dispel any evils that Pandora unleashed. We have to educate the administrators to the positive value of these tools. We have to inform the parents. Negativism, lack of knowledge, and fear seems to move and expand its tentacles more rapidly than all that is positive. I call it the exploitation of the media to sensationalize the news.
What we must pull from the box, Pandora’s box, and what she left shut inside, is hope: hope that we as educators will grab the brass ring, any and all clichés that we can gather, to take these exciting tools to the educational setting to add excitement to the learning process.
And so from this website, http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=PANDORA, as I checked on Pandora, I will leave you with this quote, “PANDORA might be blamed for all the world’s problems, but without her daughter PYRRHA the human race would be extinct. So try to think outside the box.”
Tags: Web 2.0
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