Web+2.0+Readings

Here are some (brief) readings to provide some background to our topic. Most are only a few pages long. Enjoy!




 * Robyn Freyvaud (2008)** talks about the changing landscape for educating and raising young people, the reality that student welfare and Internet-related issues have moved beyond the classroom and that today's students are digital natives being taught by us as digital immigrants. The current generation are the first to be born into and grow up with this (new?) digital technology which has become ubitiquous in their lives.

Freyvaud, R (2008). //Screen Eduaction No. 49//, p94-99, Autumn 2008.


 * Anne Bartlett-Bragg (2008)** discusses social software in 21st Century learning as a shift that is happening away from strictly organised and controlled knowledge in courses and classrooms, towards self-managed, personalised informal learning environmnents. Learners now have the capability to share, collaborate, build knowledge, network and learn.

Bartlett-Bragg (forthcoming 2008). Reframing practice: integrating social software to enable informal learning. To be published as: Pedagogical practice for learning with social software. In Hansen, T (ed). //Handbook of research on digital information technologies: Innovations, methods and ethical issues//. Information Science Reference, USA.


 * Tracy Consadine (2008)** outlines an introductory overview of some Web 2.0 technologies and how and why educators would use them in the teaching and learning environment. She summarises the educational advantagees of addressing the digital divide between educators and 21st Century students through the use of wikis, blogs and podcasts.

Consadine, T. (2008). Technology and learning: demystifying Web 2.0 technologies. //Scan//, Vol. 27, No. 1, February.


 * Catherine McLoughlin and Mark Lee (2007)** outline emerging Web 2.0 technologies (including their affordances!) and the choices and constraints of Web 2.0 to teachers and learners. They define and discuss social software and its influences in group knowledge construction and interaction capabilities, with a range of clearly defined examples. Page 670 provides a particularly comprehensive table of pedagogy 2.0 (their term) in tertiary teaching and learning.

McLoughlin, C and Lee, M (2007). Social software and participatory learning: Pedagogical choices with technology affordances in the Web 2.0 era. In //ICT: Providing choices for learners and learning. Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007.//