Learning is evolving, but we must look back even as we look forward, exploring the many potentials of online classrooms, while also recognizing how learning in digital space is and always will be informed by what we do in physical classrooms. Some provisional questions that shape this discussion:
1. How has the physical space of learning changed? How do students and teachers occupy this space? Is learning becoming more mobile or more stationary? Are we more or less likely to use our bodies while learning?
2. What different tools do students 1.0 and students 2.0 use? How do these tools change the way we interact with the subjects we study? Do we write differently (in a qualitative way) with a pencil than with a keyboard?
3. What different tools are teachers using in the classroom? Do students respond differently to information on a blackboard than to data on a screen?
4. How do technologically-enhanced or virtual classrooms address themselves to students with unconventional learning styles? Are we able to reach more students than we once were?
5. How do non-traditional students and lifelong learners fit into these new online and hybrid classrooms? As our teaching methods evolve, how do we continue to address our pedagogy to students 1.0?
6. Finally, how has the relationship between student and teacher changed? And how have social dynamics between students changed? Is classroom 2.0 more communal than classroom 1.0?