Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of internet technology and web design that aim to enhance Creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.(1)And it is great, it generates creativity! It is also unpreditable! We will not know what the Web 2.0 will bring, and exactly that is so exciting. Unpredictability (anti-information) is something that we can call creativity, something that we need according to the theory of anti-information.
But do not forget
"Creativity: we get educated out of it!"
It is Something that we have as children, though the entire educational system, anywhere in the world will teach you how to shut up and prepare yourself for an academic career. Sir Ken Robinson has given marvelous lectures about this, which I truely Recommend: click on photo or here.
I claim that the Web 2.0 with all its User Generated Content, end-users possibilities to upload something to 'their' page, is a perfect tool to regain that creativity at a very young age. I mean kids today do watch YouTube-Videos, they might have access to open source software like GIMP, a Flickr account, their own blog, website, use RSS-Feeds, MySpace, Facebook, etc..
All of what they can find online is open to them, they easily know how to download, to share with others (email, msn, skype, blogs, rss-feeds, online recommendation pages), to adept it and find a platform to publish it again. They are creating their own world, recommendation and they have the possibilities to find out what they like. They can become fans of films, music, poetry, news sites...
They discover, create and share!
And I know many people are critical about Google, but google acknowledge this as well:
Doodle: Kids competition
www.google.com/educators
See, all what google does is to provide tools and stimulate creativity and through the Teacher Academy influence the creativity with the digital world that children can create.
This posts theme does not sufficiently explain my vision on Google nor its tools. As well as that I did not mention anything about the current copyright system in the web 2.0 digital world. This might be something that I'll discuss later.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 (as viewed on 9th September 2008)
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