Affordances of web 2.0 in educational guidance: an exploratory study on the web presence in secondary schools guidance departments
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.25.num.3.2014.13857Keywords:
webtools 2.0, guidance departments, secondary education, educational guidance, communication technologiesAbstract
ABSTRACT
Efforts to provide ICT resources to Secondary Schools have been significant in the recent years. However, research at both national and international level shows that its use is still limited in several educational processes being carried out in classrooms and schools. Particularly, in the field of educational guidance and despite the usefulness several authors award to ICT tools, the existing studies reveal their affordances are not being fully developed and its use is still scarce.
Based on this, a study to analyze the presence of Web 2.0 tools in educational guidance has been designed. A non experimental, quantitative research was carried out and the websites of the 155 Secondary Schools of the A Coruña province, Spain, were reviewed.
The results indicate than more than a half of the analyzed websites have a clear and friendly environment, which makes its use easier. However the availability of web 2.0 applications in the Department of Guidance websites is very small pointing out specially on the use of e-mail and blogs as the preferred tools. Technological training of counsellors should be improved as well as providing them with support and incentives are needed in order to properly integrate the ICT into their work.
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