WEB 2.0

The web 2.0 is defintely here and providing a social platform for users to exchange and publish ideas. It seems like everywhere we turn there is some media recognition of the social, sharing nature of the web now. I know that this is not always positive, eg. fights at schools, illegal music/video sharing. However it is definitley out there and definitely the way of the now (and future) for publication and sharing of ideas. With the increase in availability of social software, education will get on board with students playing major parts in publication and sharing on the web. While a complete revolution of the classroom into an online one may be some time off, we can see the advantages for distance education, for those students who are sick and off from school/university. Instruction can be delivered and ideas shared, acknowledged, compared, criticised, disregarded in a timely and efficient manner. While I believe that school classrooms will not disappear and be taken over by a virtual high school I do believe that the power to learn accross the globe and interact with others everywhere will provide an engaging and fulfilling educational context for students in the very near future.