Is the web dying - 2
Frieda replied to my post thus:
Thanks for your post David. I agree with you that there is no plan B and that if we decide to use such tools we are throwing the die and playing with our luck ('alea jacta est'). However, what I wouldn't like to see is 'fashion' in web 2.0.
Twitter and Facebook for example seem to be in vogue now, even with all the issues Facebook has around 'privacy of data'. Does it mean that we can only rely (or partially rely) on web 2.0 fashionable?
Is the Web dying? - Sugden's posterous (7 May 2009)
http://dsugden.posterous.com/is-the-web-dying
http://snipurl.com/hjaek
[The clip above is courtesy of Hyperwords - I chose to 'copy with link']
[I decided to reply this way because the replies to Comments on Posterous is not the best way of opening up a discussion. I'd still like to see a wider discussion of the principles of this debate]
.. and I agree that parts of the web can be 'fashionable', which is why we must not lose site of our pedagogical principles.
As I said previously, we should use the web as a convenience and as an aid but we should base this convenience on basic tenets of teaching and learning. Research and evaluation can still be done in a library - it is not just a feature of online web engines; storage of media can still be done in other ways; when one web facility fails, there is always another to take its place (fingers crossed). If Flickr ever dies, because I still keep tabs on another couple of sites, I know that they could easily replace that particular convenience.
As Frieda suggests - beware of 'fashion' but exploit the underpinning principles offered.
David
