Implementing Web 2.0 in Teaching and Learning.

The aim of this material is to highlight the way a Web 2.0 learning environment can be implemented in teaching and learning and to demonstrate how the teaching potential of new technologies can be put to use for learning processes in the knowledge society. Although it can be approached in different ways, in our school the decision regarding the implementation depends on the student's software experience, learning objectives and existing media competence. The information and communication culture of our students and teachers has been enriched due to the participation in a project whose main challenge is creating a platform making use of Web 2.0 tools and allowing the students to realize that learning is becoming a creative activity. The dynamic knowledge society and the lifelong learning educational policy have increased the demand for an e-media-literacy which should be experienced to such an extent that Web 2.0 instruments (wikis, blogs, social networking) are implemented in learning and teaching across the curriculum. Web 2.0 instruments have become relevant as they promote an exchange of knowledge and the development of competencies in networks. An e-learning 2.0-environment implies openness, permeability, participation, motivation which transformed education into a creative, participative and socializing community whose main characteristic is self-organised learning - the adequate strategy for the lifelong learning. Learning requires open learning environments that enable connections and exchanges with other network partners, who will build up productive learning communities. Web 2.0 includes a proliferation of new technologies through which students can explore and create, interacting at all times with their colleagues, friends and community within the framework of self-organised learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]