This chapter was a little far out for me - I'm visioning a future where students don't ever "see" a teacher and everything is learned online. I know that is what we are doing for this class and it is working quite well, but I would have a hard time with this as well as with a lot of my peers. Will students miss out on a spirited in class discussion and instead blog? Will students miss out on doing a hands on project with each other and just use flickr and voice thread online? Hopefully there will be balance of both. I would like to think of Web 2.0 tools as just that - tools used along with all the other tools that teacher use.
Also we need a lot more computers, probably one per student as well as people who could keep them all up and running. At my school we have someone that comes in once every two weeks or so and if you miss him/her you're out of luck.
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I think one of the things to keep in mind is that in 5 years things will have changed so far that web 2.0 won't even look the same, and while that may make you wonder why you are taking a Web 2.0 class, remember that we have to live where we are, while still being flexible and looking to the future - which brings us to your other critical point that BALANCE is what is needed. I don't see a time where face time, in class, with peers and a teacher will completely go away, and if it looks like it will, we need to muster calm and relevant arguments for why it is a bad idea. The pendulum swings and sometimes it is hard to beat the momentum, but we keep trying :-)
Ann
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