Learning 2.0

What will I learn?

1. Appreciate some of the changes that have happened in the World Wide Web in recent years

2. Appreciate some of the characteristics and preferences of the ‘millennial’ student of today

3. Appreciate the variety and quantity of resources available surrounding these new technologies.

Watch this

Information r/evolution - This is a quick and excellent movie about information and the new world order

and this

A Vision of Students Today - a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today

Read this

Interesting recent research findings include the Pew Internet research project “Teens and Social Media” (2007) 3.1, which found that:

- 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engage in at least one type of content creation
- 28% of online teens have blogs
- 41% of teens using social network sites (such as MySpace or Facebook) send messages to friends via those sites every day

and this

In another recent report, the “College students’ preceptions of Libraries and Information Resources” (2005) 3.2 found that:

- 89% of students start an information search with a search engine, and only 4% start with a library web site or database

- 53% of students considered there to be no difference between trustworthiness of information from search engines and from libraries.

So … while research needs to define characteristics of Emirati millennial students, it appears that students use and trust the internet more than ‘traditional’ libraries, and that teenagers are using web 2.0 applications at an increasing rate.

What do I have to do?

1. Search YouTube and Google for, ‘web 2.0‘, ‘millennial students‘, ‘1.0 vs 2.0‘ or any other topical search terms, relating to Learning 2.0.

(Don’t forget Google can search for images, news, video, books, products, patents, groups, scholary papers, blogs and even knols, (A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.)

2. When you find something that interests you, Post a Comment below, containing the link and a small description. Then click Submit Comment.