Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation

by Julia Davies, Guy Merchant

In the last five years, Web 2.0 applications – vast virtual worlds, multiplayer online games, social networking, and file sharing among them – have inspired new notions of what it might mean to be literate in the twenty-first century. While previous scholarship on Web 2.0 has focused on its social and recreational uses, this book explores its ability to enrich and transform the educational experience of children and young people. It discusses the opportunities and risks presented by this large-scale shift in popular engagement with new media, and uses illustrative vignettes to document the work of innovative educators who construct new ways of thinking and being around Web 2.0.

146 pages, Hardcover

First published April 29, 2009

Reviews

[Audra · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a great resource for wrapping your head around some of the more popular web 2.0 trends (blogs, wikis, etc.) that seem particularly useful for classrooms. what this does that others don't is situate that well inside of a new literacies web 2.0 mindset as well as literacy as a social practice. loved it.