PLN Article : Web 2.0 Roadblocks

My PLN article this week is called “Web 2.0 Roadblocks”. The article was about how school districts are adapting to more technology within the classroom, but since 2009 they’ve been cutting back on the use because of security reasons. It was no surprise to me that it talked about the easier technology is to learn, the more teachers are going to apply it in their classroom and core activities. What was surprising to me is that “while 82 percent of schools reported talking with students and teachers about Internet safety, only 52 percent use technologies with monitoring capabilities”. On the side of my article was an interesting survey done on social networking. “65% of schools say very few or no teachers use social networking in the classroom, 21% have policies in place that forbid social networking, 56% of tech directors report ambivalence about this technology, 23% of students in grades 9-12 have access to a smartphone, 19% of schools are considering a new social networking policy, and 48% reported students are mor motivated as a result of Web 2.0 use.”