Web 2.0

Participation

Collaboration

Globalization

Key characteristics

Presence Modification

User generated content Social participation

It’s not the technology

But what the technology enables us to achieve.

Educational rationale for Web 2.0

Claim Many students already

engage in web 2.0 practices

Web2.0 promotes knowledge sharing

Developing new practices to be used in their future

Enjoyable, engaging and motivational for learners and teachers

Counter-Claim Digital divide- many students

don’t have access to these practices

Most young people’s online practices are repetitive and limited in ambition

Web 2.0 may be trivial and unproductive

Children, parents& teachers may have had a negative experience and find it hard

Educational rationale con’t.

Claim Involve new literacy

practices, real & meaningful experiences

Risks & opportunities of life online can be explored through engaging with Web 2.0

Give voice to participants & offer new possibilities for social engagement & citizenship

Collaboration & criticality can be developed

Davies, Julia, and Guy Merchant. Web 2.0 for Schools. 1st ed. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009. Print.

Counter-claim Literacy is important & being

eroded by new media

Potential dangerous place – need to protect students

Create an illusory sense of social engagement & actually create passive citizens

Creates isolated techno-subjects who use internet for vanity publishing and recycling old ideas.

Web 2.0 tools

Blogs Wikis Podcasts Social Networking Social Bookmarking YouTube Flickr RSS Feed Reader

Wikis: a website where anyone can edit anything anytime. It is collaborative construction.

Implications of a digital environment

New literacies editors and readers model Fair use issues and copyright Collaboration Need to provide our students with skills to

manage information they consume

Shifts in education

Open content Learning anywhere anytime social and collaborative Teaching is a conversation Knowing where to look critical consumers The web as a repository Writing in many forms Products ContributionRichardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classrooms.

2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 208. Print.