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Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) 1st printing edition by Davies, Julia, Merchant, Guy (2009) Paperback
In the last five years, Web 2.0 applicationsvast virtual worlds, multiplayer online games, social networking, and file sharing among themhave 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.
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July 19, 2009
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.
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