An amusing little fact: I never thought I'd hear one of my professors say, "Let's go to wikipedia" other than for the purpose of making an example of how flawed or inferior it is compared to more traditional methods of research.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not completely sure I consider this class so much as a class as I do an experiment. Yes, we (the students) are being taught by a professor (Dr. Jih) in a class room environment (use your imagination for this description), yet it would seem as if we are turning our noses to the traditional methodologies of teaching what I can best describe as theories for lack of a better word in my rather capable vocabulary. We are the mice running through the maze constructed entirely of Web 2.0 tools. We are in uncharted territory, being taught by the tools not two years ago we as the students would be punished for using if caught implementing it in our class work and it's not considered cheating.
Is this the future of teaching?
Perhaps, unfortunately I cannot see into the future. All I can do is, what all human beings can do, make a prediction. We as humans our typically reluctant change, but every single technological development in our history is the result of a change and each of these changes eventually changed the way we lived.
And that is how we evolve.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
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