BP4-Social Bookmarking in Education?

BP4- To me it is quite obvious what the benefits are for using a social bookmarking tool in a classroom setting. Even if you look at it from the aspect of convenience. I do not know how many times I have found a educational resource on my home computer, would save it in my bookmarks, go to school, and completely forget the web address, only to realize it is only saved on my home computer. The invention of web 2.0 tools such as social bookmarking has transcended education as we know it, so that we can move it to higher levels of learning. We must continue to use cutting edge technology tools to transform education to meet the needs of the 21st century learner.

Social bookmarking supports teaching and learning. It is designed to facilitate and encourage sharing and collaboration of teachers and students, or individuals with similar interests and learning across all categories.

Social bookmarking is an efficient tool in teaching and learning (Aswath, 2007, p.89) . It allows users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the internet.

Social bookmarking tools to organize, classify and share web contents while promoting collaboration and relations among students and teachers.(Berger & Trexler, 2007, p.2)

References

Aswath, L. (2007). Social Book Marking: An Efficient Tool in Teaching and Learning. Journal of Library & Information Science, 32(2), 89-96. http://search.ebscohost.com

Berger, P., & Trexler, S. (2008). Social Bookmarking: Locate, Tag and Collaborate. Information Searcher, 17(3), 1-5. http://search.ebscohost.com

Secker, J., & Price, G. (2007). LIBRARIES, SOCIAL SOFTWARE AND DISTANCE LEARNERS: BLOG IT, TAG IT, SHARE IT!. New Review of Information Networking, 13(1), 39-52. http://search.ebscohost.com, doi:10.1080/13614570701754536

(2008). WEB 2.0 AND LEARNING. Technology & Learning, 29(3), 1-4. http://search.ebscohost.com