Prompt #7

   If we're supposed to be skating to where the puck is going to be then we need to first make sure our students know where the puck has been. This is why it's important to give our students a firm base in technologies that have already begun to be implemented and used like cloud computing. Cloud computing is already used quite a bit so I think students should leave school knowing it well. Similarly, I think we need to equip students with tools to help them skate on their own. For example, we often tell students to look for key words when trying to comprehend new material. We should also be doing this when teaching students about technology.
   Some of the featured Web 3.0 technology was backed by companies like HP or different government agencies. These are names we should teach our students to watch for. While smaller companies may produce new ground-breaking technology, it is often the bigger companies with staying power that turn the technology into some consumers can use. Thus our students need to be prepared to take cues from the professional environment that produces the technological puck they're skating for. On that note though, it would seem that the majority of the Web 3.0 items all seemed to be focusing on collaboration and so I believe we should teach our students to be skating towards methods that involve inclusion, not exclusion. Programs like Etherpad and different mobile programs would be good ways of promoting collaboration.