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Let Students Talk: Web 2.0? Web 3.0? Or None? (Tuncay, Nazime.)

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Let Students Talk: Web 2.0? Web 3.0? Or None?
Author:	Tuncay, Nazime. Search Author in Amazon Books
Publisher:	Academic Conferences Ltd.,
ISBN:	978-1-906638-52-8
Edition:	2009.
Classification:	LB1028

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- Students in 21st century have changed radically with the evolving technology and Web 2.0 tools. They are no longer the students the current educational system was designed to teach. Using technologies that support high levels of accessibility web tools, and providing students with choices are of the highest importance. Although many students engage with Web 2.0 technologies on a daily basis, they view them as social networking tools and they have different expectations from Web 3.0 tools. A questionnaire was created to find Web 2.0 tools preferences of high school students and university students (which was posted on Surveymonkey.com). 210 high school students and 231 university students, in North Cyprus, have answered the questionnaire. 15 high school students and 15 university students were chosen randomly for one-to-one interviews with the researchers. Interviews were carried out to drive out students' expectations from Web 3.0 technologies. Students' responses in the questionnaires differed significantly based upon students' schools: High school students were mostly using web tools for communication with their friends and university students were using web tools mostly for communication with their family members. Some of the other interesting results of this research are: Facebook is the most commonly used Web 2.0 tool and Hi5 is the second most commonly used web tool. In the interviews, some of the interesting answers of the students were: "Web 2.0 tools should have better group meeting audio systems"; "They should contain Multilanguage support" and "they should have better group meeting audio system". Most of the students said that they want to learn how to use Web 2.0 tools, although their parents restrict themselves. In conclusion, lots of results were obtained by "letting the students talk". Researchers found that "blended education" programs would be the best way to improve high school students and university students Web 2.0 training needs. Teachers and parents should be informed about the benefits of the usage of web tools in education. These results should provide insight to educators and cause them to rethink and analyze their Web 2.0 choices for their courses. It presents a framework for Web 3.0 projects. Further studies of the researchers would be "Teachers web 2.0 choices and their expectations from Web 3.0 tools".