Week 4 - Reflection on Web 2.0 and Classrooms

The Web 2.0 provides opportunities for students to be creative, have a degree of control over their own learning, to be able to solve problems, to help improve their personal IT capability and to work cooperatively.

The 'Es' of Web 2.0 has 3 factors that were termed 'Es' of Web 2.0. They are as follows:

1. Enjoyable and Exciting - students are able to show off their work through Web 2.0, which shares with a wide audience.
2. Energises Learning - by working in groups students can exchange ideas, challenge each other and learn from each other.
3. Emancipatory- this provides students with the opportunities to take responsibility for their own learning. 

Web 2.0 in Education

The impact of learning also takes place beyond the classroom. This now means that we can learn technology and communicate whenever and wherever. While digital technologies have merged the boundaries of work and play.

References:

Younie, S., Leask, M., & Burden, K. (2015). Teaching and Learning with ICT in the Primary School (2nd ed.) Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge.