Do you have a blogger, facebook, wiki, flickr, or skype account? Most people today would be a member of at least one of those websites, making almost anyone apart of the Web 2.0 advancement. Web 2.0 is an online development of communication and information sharing, collaboration, deep research and self-built worlds. Everyone communicates, rates, provides feedback, shares and adds links to these sites. The internet is definitely not like what it used to be, with only a limited number of people who control website, but today the Web is self user-centred.
Web 2.0 includes wiki’s, blogs, podcasts, social networks and virtual words (Harris & Rea, 2009).
Web 2.0 has come a long way and is becoming “a significant learning and social networking tool that can help individuals, groups, and organizations learn in new, interesting ways” (Karrer, 2007, as cited in Chong, 2010, p. 798).
Web 2.0 is seen as not only being capable of a different research option, but also providing broad activities and extending the boundaries of research (Chong, 2010). A great advantage of Web 2.0 is that it allows you to receive almost immediate feedback and comments on what you post, from people in different parts of the world with different points of view. This sort of feedback improves your ideas and broadens your perspective.
You would be surprised how many people who are apart of Web 2.0 but have never heard the term before, let alone knowing what it is! This picture contains all the key words in Web 2.0
only going to develop and improve from here. Web 2.0 can be further used for students for knowledge building, critical reading, progressive problem solving, synthesizing and combining and evaluating definitions, and questioning issues and causes. It also avoids premature judgment and it allows you to observe deeply and it is accessible 24/7 for every user and designer for both students and teachers.
The disadvantages of web 2.0 is that is creates a world wide community with no rules to follow. Users are free to post and share whatever they like, whether it is inappropriate or incorrect. Many users can potentially be unsafe due to the free and easy access to personal and important information. Users who are heavily apart of Web 2.0 are at risk of their identity and are lacking in privacy.
- Since users are free to post anything, the “information” provided isinvaluable and unreliable for quality research.
“We humans need to set ourselves free from the central computer, or else we will all be slaves. Why do we need an application to track every move we make, every tune we listen to, or every picture we take?”-anonymous. I stumbled across this quote on google, and it reminded me that the more focus we have on the world of Web 2.0, the less focus will be on the natural things in life. As teachers, we must not only encourage deep research and collaboration on Web 2.0, but also guide the students to have a balanced lifestyle and to be away from the computer as much as they are on it.
References
Chong, E. (2010). Using Blogging to Enhance the Initiation of Students into Academic Research. Computers and Education, 55(2), 798-807.
Su, A., Yang, S., Hwang, W., & Zhang, S. (2010). A Web 2.0 Based Collaborative annotation System for Enhancing Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Learning Environments. Computers and Education, 55(2), 752-766.
Harris, A., & Rea, A. (2009). Web 2.0 and Virtual World Technologies: A Growing Impact IS Education. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2), 137-145.
Chong, E. (2010). Using Blogging to Enhance the Initiation of Students into Academic Research. Computers and Education, 55(2), 798-807.
Su, A., Yang, S., Hwang, W., & Zhang, S. (2010). A Web 2.0 Based Collaborative annotation System for Enhancing Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Learning Environments. Computers and Education, 55(2), 752-766.
Harris, A., & Rea, A. (2009). Web 2.0 and Virtual World Technologies: A Growing Impact IS Education. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2), 137-145.
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