Web 2.0 is a term that describes the new era of world wide web. It refers to websites that emphasize user-generated contents, which makes it different from Web 1.0 which emphasizes on reading content only. In other words, Web 2.0 promotes the sense of crowd-funding, where everyone can play their part in any content that is shared online.
Web 2.0 services and technologies expand the learning options available to educators. For example, Wiki technology enables collaborative learning as users to collectively create, edit, link, and share web content. Google Docs allow the collaboration among students to do their work together without having to meet each other. Youtube is a technology that has be been up in the clouds for a few years already and has improved as the technology goes and creates a massive platform for web 2.0 in education as students now can acquire new knowledge through this site. Wikis, Blogs and similar Web 2.0 technologies provide a means for users to easily participate in the creation of new knowledge rather than consume pre-existing knowledge. These technologies also provide alternative assessment options for educators. The result is often a more engaging and collaborative teaching and learning experience. I think, as a future teacher, it is very important for me to be able to encorporate this new era of technology in my classroom, and not limit my dependence on physical teaching that includes only books and whiteboard. I should expand the horizon of my students' mind by being up to date with technology and include things they can learn from internet in my teaching. For example, instead of writing essays on the blankness of pages in notebooks, I could ask them to make a personal blog where they could share their thoughts to the world. It is very important for me to always be creative in my ways of teaching them so that they can find learning to be a fun process.
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