WHAT IS WEB 2.0???
‘Web 2.0’ is a term coined from Tim O’Reilly (2011) and MediaLive International in relation to huge developmental increase of the internet. Web 2.0 is a continuously developing internet movement that intends to enhance creativity, collaboration and information sharing among users. In easier terms it is interactive and social web making easy collaboration between people. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites (Facebook), blogs (weebly), wikis (wikispaces), video sharing sites (YouTube) and many more on the World Wide Web. Success in the Web 2.0 world depends on a successful user experience (O’Reilly, 2011)
WHAT IS WEB 3.0???
Even though web 3.0 has not become available yet, the future of the web is around the corner. Media personalities believe that web 3.0 is going to be primarily the transformation in how websites are produced, and more importantly, how people interact with them. Randy Matusky (2013) expresses that with his research on the topic, web3.0 will generate raw data on its own. The more we connect to the internet through different devices like smartphones, tablets, cars etc. we are leading the internet free to become infinitely universal.
WEB 2.0 IN THE CLASSROOM
Education is constantly growing and developing. Web 2.0/Web 3.0 can be used in traditional classroom and as an appealing learning tool for the new generation. With all of the new growth of web based learning tool teachers are able to connect with a larger range of different learning types, which is become a huge problem in schools. It is in this technology era when the curriculum needs to be looked at, because the students have the knowledge to access more information than many teachers. According to AusVELS (2013) the dimension for Information and Communication Technology are: visualizing thinking, creating, communicating. These dimension are on their way to using more technology in the classroom but they are not straining out enough enriching learning which is at their figure tips.
According to Collins (2009) the velocity to which student work online can become available for anyone to read (including the teacher) and get feedback. This gives the student control of their learning, to read other points of view and prepares students for life outside of school. ICT programs have even been seen as a positive tool by the environmentalist, as the program is sustainable.
The main criticism about web 2.0 is that there isn’t a new internet development at all, that is it is just a continuation of Web 1.0. Programs have just been re-named and the World Wide Web is just looking for more hype to collect more uses. (Idehen, 2006).
The main disadvantage about the use of Web 2.0 in a primary classroom is the fact that anything that is posted or blogged is freedom of speech and can be read by any person of any age who access to the students URL or any blog URL for that matter. This has led to large cases of cyber-bullying. Cyber bulling has become a huge new thing for many school, students, families and teachers. Schools have sent out information about how to see the signs, but this new issue is a hard one to crack because you may not be able to physically see it going on.
‘Web 2.0’ is a term coined from Tim O’Reilly (2011) and MediaLive International in relation to huge developmental increase of the internet. Web 2.0 is a continuously developing internet movement that intends to enhance creativity, collaboration and information sharing among users. In easier terms it is interactive and social web making easy collaboration between people. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites (Facebook), blogs (weebly), wikis (wikispaces), video sharing sites (YouTube) and many more on the World Wide Web. Success in the Web 2.0 world depends on a successful user experience (O’Reilly, 2011)
WHAT IS WEB 3.0???
Even though web 3.0 has not become available yet, the future of the web is around the corner. Media personalities believe that web 3.0 is going to be primarily the transformation in how websites are produced, and more importantly, how people interact with them. Randy Matusky (2013) expresses that with his research on the topic, web3.0 will generate raw data on its own. The more we connect to the internet through different devices like smartphones, tablets, cars etc. we are leading the internet free to become infinitely universal.
WEB 2.0 IN THE CLASSROOM
Education is constantly growing and developing. Web 2.0/Web 3.0 can be used in traditional classroom and as an appealing learning tool for the new generation. With all of the new growth of web based learning tool teachers are able to connect with a larger range of different learning types, which is become a huge problem in schools. It is in this technology era when the curriculum needs to be looked at, because the students have the knowledge to access more information than many teachers. According to AusVELS (2013) the dimension for Information and Communication Technology are: visualizing thinking, creating, communicating. These dimension are on their way to using more technology in the classroom but they are not straining out enough enriching learning which is at their figure tips.
According to Collins (2009) the velocity to which student work online can become available for anyone to read (including the teacher) and get feedback. This gives the student control of their learning, to read other points of view and prepares students for life outside of school. ICT programs have even been seen as a positive tool by the environmentalist, as the program is sustainable.
The main criticism about web 2.0 is that there isn’t a new internet development at all, that is it is just a continuation of Web 1.0. Programs have just been re-named and the World Wide Web is just looking for more hype to collect more uses. (Idehen, 2006).
The main disadvantage about the use of Web 2.0 in a primary classroom is the fact that anything that is posted or blogged is freedom of speech and can be read by any person of any age who access to the students URL or any blog URL for that matter. This has led to large cases of cyber-bullying. Cyber bulling has become a huge new thing for many school, students, families and teachers. Schools have sent out information about how to see the signs, but this new issue is a hard one to crack because you may not be able to physically see it going on.
Facebook https://www.facebook.com
Facebook is the world’s largest social networking sites (Kazeniac, 2009)., with more them 800 million users worldwide (Olivarez-Giles, 2011). The free to use site began in February 2004 and skyrocketed through the internet getting worldwide use. To become a member of the site all you need to do is register with your email address, then u will have a profile, where you can upload photos and videos, do status updates and view your friends profile.
Facebook is the world’s largest social networking sites (Kazeniac, 2009)., with more them 800 million users worldwide (Olivarez-Giles, 2011). The free to use site began in February 2004 and skyrocketed through the internet getting worldwide use. To become a member of the site all you need to do is register with your email address, then u will have a profile, where you can upload photos and videos, do status updates and view your friends profile.
TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/
TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to YouTube, although used for educational purposes. This website was designed primarily for teachers and educator as a way of sharing resource for others to use. The website is filled with many different teacher/student resources including: Videos, audio, documents, photos and blogs. Students also use the site as a study resource or teachers get classes to upload thing as an assessment task.
This site is a great for teacher, when trying different teaching styles for other learning styles than your own. For example if students are learning about World War 2, instead of reading about it in a text book, why not view a video of the world event. Many of your visual and auditory learner would really benefit from this and will be able to remember and be able to articulate more from viewing a video.
For the younger children in the school when learning to pronounce their letters, they could listen to a voice repeat the same letter sound. Instead as a whole class you could voice record and post everyone in the class pronouncing /e/. Then whenever a student need to hear the sound they can independently access the sound and help themselves pronounce correctly, with the help of their class mates.
TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to YouTube, although used for educational purposes. This website was designed primarily for teachers and educator as a way of sharing resource for others to use. The website is filled with many different teacher/student resources including: Videos, audio, documents, photos and blogs. Students also use the site as a study resource or teachers get classes to upload thing as an assessment task.
This site is a great for teacher, when trying different teaching styles for other learning styles than your own. For example if students are learning about World War 2, instead of reading about it in a text book, why not view a video of the world event. Many of your visual and auditory learner would really benefit from this and will be able to remember and be able to articulate more from viewing a video.
For the younger children in the school when learning to pronounce their letters, they could listen to a voice repeat the same letter sound. Instead as a whole class you could voice record and post everyone in the class pronouncing /e/. Then whenever a student need to hear the sound they can independently access the sound and help themselves pronounce correctly, with the help of their class mates.
Twiducate http://www.twiducate.com/
Twiducate is a free website for teachers and students.
The aim of the website is to create a friendly place where students and teachers can access and continue their learning anywhere outside the classroom. The site is trying to attempt to create an exciting but private social networking site for students. The site is safe and can be used at school or home. Teachers can access the students profile and students are learning in new ways. The site tries to fall under three main umbrellas: Connect, Collaborate and Embed. Connect is for students to have a ‘private’ and ‘social’ networking site. Collaborate means the student can add teachers and students from all different school, share thoughts and ideas, discuss homework and post questions. Embed means to use the toolbar and have fun by uploading images, videos, documents, highlighting and bold (Twiducate 2012).
As explained above the benefits of Twiducate for students and teachers are becoming endless. You can post a sick child their homework, help students when they are at home. Have students do work on the site in the classroom and give them the opinion of continuing at home. As a teacher you can make it a weekly task for the students to post something educational leant that week and explain why/how? As a reward/encouragement comment on a post from one of your students. Give the other students a chance to voice their opinions on other students’ posts to
Twiducate is a free website for teachers and students.
The aim of the website is to create a friendly place where students and teachers can access and continue their learning anywhere outside the classroom. The site is trying to attempt to create an exciting but private social networking site for students. The site is safe and can be used at school or home. Teachers can access the students profile and students are learning in new ways. The site tries to fall under three main umbrellas: Connect, Collaborate and Embed. Connect is for students to have a ‘private’ and ‘social’ networking site. Collaborate means the student can add teachers and students from all different school, share thoughts and ideas, discuss homework and post questions. Embed means to use the toolbar and have fun by uploading images, videos, documents, highlighting and bold (Twiducate 2012).
As explained above the benefits of Twiducate for students and teachers are becoming endless. You can post a sick child their homework, help students when they are at home. Have students do work on the site in the classroom and give them the opinion of continuing at home. As a teacher you can make it a weekly task for the students to post something educational leant that week and explain why/how? As a reward/encouragement comment on a post from one of your students. Give the other students a chance to voice their opinions on other students’ posts to