Week 5-Edutopia Blog

What: Edutopia Blog-A Look to the Future of Education

Edutopia is a foundation that is dedicated to better enabling and supporting public educators is taking a step into the future and moving all of their work to the web. The group that previously published a bimonthly magazine is abandoning this form of media and moving completely to the Internet.

So What:
Edutopia realizes the enormous benefits that are to be had by publishing their work and research via the Internet. The information is more accessible to more people (free), it can go more in depth, be updated more quickly, respond to personal questions and needs, be available for more interactivity, post videos, etc. Edutopia will become a place of infinite information availability.

Now What:
Some of Edutopia's followers were excited about this move, others, however, were not far from utter disappointment. However, I do not believe that this was as a result of the integrity of Edutopia's information or quality of work. I am convinced that this is completely due to the digital natives vs digital immigrants generations. It is difficult for educators who have grown up in a certain lifestyle to be excited about something that is unfamiliar to them. However, I do feel that it is necessary to challenge them in their openness and thinking, as Edutopia's move will likely result in producing a more in depth and accurate database of information that will result in helping educators to be better.