Parents see value of Web 2.0

12:55 9th September 2008

Parents that understand technology see the value of Web 2.0 in the classroom but teachers are less certain, new research has disclosed.

The study commissioned by ntl: Telewest Business interviewed 1,500 teachers and found that half of the respondents felt that technologies such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Wikipedia have no academic benefit.

In contrast two-thirds of the parents questioned said that Web 2.0 is a positive addition to the classroom.

Bola Rotibi, principal analyst at Macehiter Ward Dutton, told computerweekly.com that there is too much focus on relatively few Web 2.0 applications.

She said: "It is down to education to find which Web 2.0 applications they could use, but you cannot do this by sticking your head in the sand."

Last month, the research analyst Gartner advised IT companies to keep track of social trends as they become more important in business and commercial systems.

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