What to do, what to do?

I've been tearing my hair out trying to come up with a topic for our solo theory project.  Either I'm thinking too deeply or I'm just not very smart. 

This year I find myself teaching students to use Web 2.0 tools (Fakebook, Community Walk, Creaza, etc.), more often than teaching database searching.  And these teaching moments only occur because I try to convince a particular teacher to try it.  I find this disturbing because teachers seem to be getting away from requiring their students to find information on their own.  They'd rather hand it to them to save time. I'm sympathetic to their plight (testing constraints, fitting in skills, etc.), but the students are losing a vital life skill. 

Despite this being a very large "gap" in my professional existence, I'm not sure how it translates into a theory-based issue.  So unless I can figure that out I think I will base my paper on how we must embrace a connectivist style of teaching when incorporating Web 2.0 into teaching.  Like connectivist theory, Web 2.0/e-learning encourages users to make connections with others, to collaborate.  It's more about the journey, and the learning that occurs is a by-product of the journey. 

I think I also may touch on how sometimes teachers are reluctant to embrace allowing their students make online connections with others.  But in the right environment, educational collaboration can be very satisfying and safe for teachers and students.

Tah dah!