The days of sitting in a classroom and listening to a lecture are definitely over, or they should be coming to an end. In these days of technological advances teachers and schools need to keep up with the times. In order to prepare students for the web 2.0 world we need to be teaching them what to do with wikis, blogs, rss and how to use social networking sites appropriately. In order to accomplish this, teachers will need to become more educated with web 2.0 and realize that while they are developing students skills they will be developing their own as well. As David Warlick stated in his 2 cents column “teachers are learners and learners are teachers.”
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/02/27/more-on-school-20/

In order to assist with teachers becoming more familiar with web 2.0, I would suggest reading Brian Benzinger’s columns. In Part 1 he gives a detailed list of tools for teacher to use. In Part 2 he describes alternates for basic word processing and different presentations. Part 3 foucses on giving examples of how schools have incorporated some of these web 2.0 options. It would seem like a good place to start. http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/