First we have to consider the student. Are you teaching middle age students that grew up in a world that gave birth to computers or young students that are growing up with computers that perform far beyond what could be envisioned twenty years ago? (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.87.3793&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
I grew up as a baby boomer where the way to learn about woodworking was the grab a peice of wood and a tool and start making something. That still works, but there is another new tool. The internet. In order to learn a new teachnique years ago may have involved a trip to the library or magazine stand where a person would either look through the card catalog at the library for a book location, then try and find the book in that location in hopes that someone else hadn't already checked it out for two weeks. Now a person can access that information instantly as well as many
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Not sure what side the hot water faucet goes on or which way the knob is supposed to turn? Just check a blog, text a knowledgeable friend for the answer. The downside to this is how do we know that that answer is accurate?
Back to using web 2.0 in the classroom/shop.
In order to teach a student you must present the material. Projectors are dinosaurs and Power Point Presentations are dated. Today's students are used to graphic video games with lots of action, so does the teacher have to make graphic games out of presentations in order to capture and retain the students attention? Maybe. Maybe the student can find the information they need in a media form that they are used to and with that, maybe the student can keep it simple enough to remember, or be able to find it again often enough to remember it through rote memorization.
What is wrong with this procedure?
