Web2.0 options as instructional tools and it's role in creating classroom environment

Cooperation is a very essential key to guarantee any successful classroom whatever the environment is. Cooperative learning should be infused in all subjects because of the role that plays in all of life's experiences. Students will learn important life skills by working together and collaborate their ideas ( Encouraging Cooperative Learning, 2000).



There are two kinds of motivation, integrative and instrumental ones. Students are said to have integrative motivation when the learner wishes to identify with groups, while instrumental motivation is when the learner is motivated to learn for utilitarian purposes, such as furthering a career, improving social status or meeting an educational requirement (Posner & Rudnitsky, 2001).



According to what illustrated above, students differentiate from one another. Some of them are motivated because they seek to improve their social status; on the other hand, there are others who are familiar of their being motivated naturally. In addition, many factors influenced students' motivation, such as learning situations that affect students 'degree of success'. In this case, the learner can hold negative attitudes towards learning situations if the teachers' agenda is very different from the learner anticipating. Sometimes, this negativity becomes severe enough that learners abandon the learning completely.

There are also major aspects that play on a student's role as a learner which are teachers, and community including parents, peers in students' society. Teacher's attitudes towards learners, of course, can also affect the quality and quantity of the learning in the classroom. Guided by the encouragement of their teachers, students can be motivated in many ways. For example, engaging the student's voice during the lecture is more than just asking them for comments or feedback.

Tool's like Web2.0 can be used for students to express themselves in terms of comments or feedback within their classroom group. This is another way of having every one's voice heard.

Community also plays a most important position for increasing caring and collaboration among students all of which can be done on a blog like this one. We know that students belong to societies including parents at the first place, relatives and peers. Some of students live in very high motivated community, so they try to do their best to be necessary member in that community. When the students are able to communicate, they will produce more and their motivation will increase.

Today our goal as educator's is to create learners equipped with life skill's that make them more confidant to face the challenges of the future. Having children become technologically savvy and using tools like web2.0 allow information to be integrated immediately into a standing curriculum, engaging students and providing innovative and collaborative solutions to teacher's.

Teachnology such as Web2.0 serves to build community within the classroom and can be used to involve parents participation in the students learning process.