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Magdaleen

Kotzé

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READ/WRITE WEB: PODCAST


The read/write web or Web 2.0 technologies can be defined as a platform to
easily facilitate participation in conversations. This holds significant
potential for educators.

The impact of Web 2.0 on education will force educators to rethink the
curriculum, and expectations for students. But HOW will it affect teaching
practices? The new web gives students the ability to reach wider audiences,
and can bring primary sources to students. Literacy skills of students change
because they become not only readers and writers, but editors and
collaborators as well. Students need the skills to deal with reams of “digital
paper” provided by weblogs.

“Weblogged” (a web resource for teachers) lists the competencies that


independent students need as:

“Self-directing, -selecting, -editing, -organizing, -reflecting, -publishing,


-connecting”. The read/write web provides a constructionist, collaborative
pedagogy that will better prepare students for new literacies and
competencies in their post-education lives.

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