I often wondered how the Internet got started. In my early career in teaching I had TRS80's in my classroom and really had no idea what to do with them. Thank God I also had two students that did have a great deal of knowledge about these computer and were willing to share it with us all. After that there was the Apple with the five inch floppy that had to read on both sides. I use this for keeping track of grade. It was really more trouble than it was worth but I did it because that is what my school wanted me to do. My husband had a computer at work that he could look up and order parts from. It ran on DOS and I had no idea what that was either. Then one day our of nowhere we could email. I don't remember how exactly that all got started.
After reading the first chapter of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts I learn it was started by a man named Berners-Lee he used it as a medium to collaborate with other researchers and government officials in 1989. Then came the Mosaic Web Browser it was not easy to create content on the web. This did become easier and by 2003 53 million American adults were users of the Internet for publishing. This has continued to grow exponentially and even i can post on the web!
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What a wonderful story of empowerment for those two students. Often we teachers are seen as the holders of all knowledge, but we're not, we're just a little more experienced at learning, is all. I think it's important for our students to see that we're all in this learning game together, and that we need to be helping each other along the way.
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