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Web 2.0 in Education: Trends for 2008
Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--and Educational--Networking." One such social networking site, MySpace, agreed this week to take steps to protect children online from content perceived as dangerous, such as pornography, harassment, bullying, and identity theft. It remains to be seen what impact, if any, this will have on the adoption of social networking in schools.Oddly, it's in the more benevolent, education-focused Web technologies where schools seem to be more intent on banning student participation. While 52 percent of schools block social networking sites, 62 percent block students from blogging, and a full 84 percent ban online chat technologies, both which are fairly integral to the online learning process and standard components of electronic learning systems.
And so, despite the promise of Web 2.0 and the collaborative learning and communications tools out there, 2008 may yet prove to be a slow year for the further adoption of these technologies owing to underlying security flaws in the technologies and the perceptions of the value of these technologies in education.
Still, Web 2.0 does hold that promise for new and ever more inventive was to engage students (and teachers) in the learning process. The articles linked below show some of the examples of teachers incorporating Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in their programs, along with some advice on their effective use in education.
Read More:
- Case Study: Podcasting from the Seashore in Cape Cod
- Case Study: A Second Life for Middle School Science
- Case Study: L3RN: Seattle Public Schools Brings Social Networking In House
- Feature: The Teen Grid: Bringing Your School into Second Life
- Feature: Building a Better Podcast
- Research: Students Actually Use the Internet for Education
- Advice: Tips for Using Chat as an Instructional Tool
- Advice: Second Life: Do You Need One? (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
- Advice: Moderating and Ethics for the Classroom Instructional Blog
- Advice: Podcasts: Where's the Learning?
- Advice: Podcasts: Improving Quality and Accessibility
About the author: David Nagel is the executive editor for 1105 Media's online education technology publications, including THE Journal and Campus Technology. He can be reached at dnagel@1105media.com.
Proposals for articles and tips for news stories, as well as questions and comments about this publication, should be submitted to David Nagel, executive editor, at dnagel@1105media.com.
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