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ICT 2011: Enhancing Learning Through Technology. Education Unplugged: Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0 pp 51–62Cite as

Web 2.0 Divide among Naughty Insiders, Worried Outsiders, and Invisible Monitors: A Case Study

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Through focus group interview, this paper carried out a case study in a secondary school in Hong Kong on the use of Web 2.0 technologies among students, parents, and teachers. Findings suggest that there was no divide in terms of access and usage but a divide of web 2.0 technologies use among them. In conclusion, our research team speculated the roles that all these stakeholders were playing and attempted to describe them as: naughty insiders, worried outsiders, and invisible monitors.

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  1. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Mingmei Yu, Allan H. K. Yuen, Jae Park, Hoi Ching Lam, Kai Kwong Lau & Wilfred Lau

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  1. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18, Chiu Ling Road, TKO, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Reggie Kwan

  2. Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research (CLEAR), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

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  3. Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium, 18, Chiu Ling Road, TKO, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China

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Yu, M., Yuen, A.H.K., Park, J., Lam, H.C., Lau, K.K., Lau, W. (2011). Web 2.0 Divide among Naughty Insiders, Worried Outsiders, and Invisible Monitors: A Case Study. In: Kwan, R., McNaught, C., Tsang, P., Wang, F.L., Li, K.C. (eds) Enhancing Learning Through Technology. Education Unplugged: Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0. ICT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_5

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