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I think it is really interesting how this article puts web 2.0 learning styles into perspective and shows you how web 2.o is changing the ways we are leaning today even though we might not even realize it. This IMS class is the first class ever where I have had to use a blog and the first time I have used a blog in general. Although I am still getting used to it, I am starting to like it a lot. I think it definitely brings into perspective a new way of learning. Although we still learn in class from the teacher, we are also learning new things from the students in the class as well as the teacher learning new things from us.
I chose this article because it really goes into the different learning styles that you can take away from Web 2.0. Just to start out, it talks about how over the past few years “we have created building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways for which we provide education and support learning” through the growth of the internet being used in both formal and informal ways providing educational resources to most anyone who wants them. It goes on to talk about social learning and how it involves active participation and different experiments that have been done in order to figure out what ways the students are learning best. This article describes how the Web 2.0 movement is changing the ways in which we are learning. “Educators, along with students, are learning among and between themselves.”