Educational Networking: The important role web 2.0 will play in education

Autor Steve Hargadon
Año 2009
Idioma English
Páginas 10
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We’ve been waiting a long time for computers to dramatically change education, but for the most part, that promise remains unfulfilled. Unlike in the business world, where the computer quickly became a fixture on every desk and transformed both day-to-day tasks and the business landscape as a whole, computers have not transformed the goals of educators, or even the methods used to achieve those goals.

There are a lot of reasons that this is so — legal, financial, and cultural — but I believe that the bottom line is that there hasn’t been a computer application that so universally changes things that we stop seeing computers as an add-on, and start seeing them as integral to the full educational process. The spreadsheet, the word processor, and email served this seminal role in the business world; it’s hard to imagine doing business without them. But take the computer out of most schools and classrooms, and the instruction wouldn’t change much. Admitedly, traditional sofware tools on computers can be very helpful in the educational setting — it is easier to correct drafts writen in a word processor — but they aren’t at the core of the educational process, transforming the process of teaching and learning.