This blog tends to open a space to reflect on the use of Web 2.0, the wide range of possibilities it opens to the field of education and all its advantages and ... disadvantages.
As many of us have already pointed out, using this new means of teaching and learning opens for us as educators a wide range of opportunities to broaden our students' interaction with the real world, but are we aware of the obstacles we are to face in the process?
Think about heads of department, administratives, colleagues, parents, and why not some students. What are the problems you think you would have with them? And moreover think about availability of this new technology in your workplace. Is there availability of computers and Internet at your workplace? Can you use them freely? I would like you to mention all the drawbacks you are likely to face so that we could take one at a time and try to find a solution altogether.
My aim IS NOT to rise a word against, on the contrary, it is to find the way to overcome every single difficulty that may appear in our way. This space is aimed to serve as a springboard for the hard work of finding solutions to the upcoming problems in this new challenge. And I hope you all help me find them.
Patricia
