"Web 2.0" and education

A lot of people with strong voices in the educational sector today preach "web 2.0" and social software as tools for modern education. If you look past the hype i believe that there is a lot to learn from social software such as flickr, myspace, digg and del.icio.us when building educational applications. Does this mean that the future software platform for education will be hosted by Google? Probably not, but that's a different discussion.

There are however two questions that should be raised to the evangelists of these applications in education.

1. How can we protect our students and pupils personal data and avoid giving away control over such data?

2. Is it OK to let our students and pupil be the subject of advertisement in order to take advantage of free services on the net?

Fell free to comment!