Web 2.0
Participation
Collaboration
Globalization
Key characteristics
Presence
Modification
User generated content
Social participation
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
Blogs: constructivist, part of the body of knowledge on www, expands
walls of classroom, archives learning, supports different learning styles, creates expertise in field of study, teaches new literacies
Novel studies
Wikis: a website where anyone can edit anything anytime. It is collaborative construction.
Flickr: visual literacy, folksonomy, find affinity groups, publish student work, start
online discussions around images, merges Google maps and Google Earth
RSS Reader: aggregator, let all the news come to you, make it specific or general to track the blogosphere.
Social bookmarking: a librarian’s best friend. anywhere anytime Folksonomies and tagging organize annotate Highlight sticky notes archives tag clouds synergy
Delicious
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.