From the discussion in BB this week, I am especially interested in the challenges of Web 2.0. I found two related articles for it.
1. Churchill (2009) did a research of using blogs to support teaching and learning in a university in Hong Kong. The results were that students consider blog-based activities support learning because of the interaction -read blogs of other, receive comments, and preview tasks of others and read feedback received in relation to there. Then it continued saying that assessment and requirement were the two important issues that affected students' participation in blog activites. Students showed that they won't continue writing blogs or participate reading others' blog if this activites was not a required assignment and if the points they would get from participating this activites also is an issuse. (less points, less participation)
2. Reeves (2009) talked about the three challenges of Web 2.0 and the one interested me most was the "Filters Vs. Fountains". Web 2.0 is more like fountain that spred all kinds of informaiton to all people onilne. However, as intructional designers or teachers, they should act as a filter for their learners. Reeves points out that many students now rely on searching engin too often in research that they loose or have no correct judgement of what resources are good or bad. Moreover, because Web 2.0 makes infromation easy copy and past, this may confuse students that research means cut and past from online.
As I read these two articles and the posting in BB, I am wondering that yes, we have all kinds of rules in education, but, do they still fits for learners now in Web 2.0? I think Web 2.0 surely will change the learning in the future and how I, as an instructional designer can do to maximum the value of Web 2.0 in instructioanl uses to support learning. This is one of the things I want to learn from this course also.
Resources:
Churchill, D. (2009). Educational applications of Web 2.0: Using blogs to support teaching and learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40, no1, 179-183.
Reeves, D. (2009, March). Three challenges of Web 2.0. Educational Leadership, 66(6), 87-89.
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I think you're wondering about something pretty important here, Cindy. Web 2.0 in its pure form is meant to be user-initiated and to truly reflect the user's interest and needs. However, the traditional instructional designer's job is to design instruction with particular goals and objectives in mind. Those goals and objectives may not match the learner's own goals and objectives. Thus, Web 2.0 tools may be integrated into the instruction we design, but our very act of designing the instruction may, in fact, be counter to Web 2.0. Or is it? This will be a great topic for us to continue discussing during the course.
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