Geographers and the Social Web

The Social Web: New technologies in the Geography Classroom

Snippet from BECTa RESEARCH REPORT on the use of WEB 2.0 ("the social web")

The research found that over half of teachers surveyed believe that Web 2.0 resources should be used more often in the classroom. However, the majority of teachers questioned had never used Web 2.0 applications in lessons, despite being frequent users of technology in their personal and professional lives. Their main concerns involved a lack of time to familiarise themselves with the technology and worries about managing the use of the internet in class.

What use do you make of the social web ?

What barriers are there to its use ?

Probably a little early to start planning this yet, but if you have any thoughts on the issue, add a comment and it will feed in to a proposed session at the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference in Southport in January 2009.

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