Monday, November 30, 2009

PLE

Students today not only must be verbally literate but they must be digitally fluent to be competitive in today's global job market. By teaching students how to accomplish this at the same time they are learning content in core subjects the use of Web 2.0 tools becomes second nature to them. The classroom of the future needs to be a hybrid classroom where students spend part of their time in a brick and mortar classroom and the rest of the time will be spent in a virtual classroom. The benefits of the hybrid classrrom would be numerous. What are some of the advantages you see with this concept?