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TopThe internet has several critical roles in education as a learning environment. In the early days, the internet and particularly the web were a fixed structure, because there were no active viewers (Kaldoudi, Bamidis, Papaioakeim & Vargemezis, 2008). With the development of computer and internet technologies, web service has improved, and an important example of this is Web 2.0 tools, particularly as an approach to the delivery of education. The term social software is applied to Web 2.0 tools since they promote the switch from web readership to web literacy (Cin Şeker, 2020).
The concept of Web 2.0 was first used by Darcy Di Nucci in 1990, but it was O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty who popularized it in the following years (Moshahid & Pt, 2017). In 2003, O’Reilly Media referred to a new term called Web 2.0, which allowed easier sharing of information on internet. Social media applications, such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, are examples of Web 2.0 technologies (Peltier-Davis, 2009). Briefly, the dynamic structure of Web 2.0 creates web technologies that are widely used today, providing fast and easy access to information, and offering information production opportunities (Çekinmez, 2009). Web 2.0 is not an upgrade of Web 1.0; it is a set of new technologies, tools and services that support group and community activities. The user is no longer a recipient, but a participant (Kaldoudi, Bamidis, Papaioakeim & Vargemezis, 2008). The next-generation Web 2.0 presents matchless opportunities for teaching and learning applications in the areas of collaboration, communication, inquiry, literacy, and personal expression (Drexler, Baralt, & Dawson, 2008). Web 2.0 tools are very important for teaching and learning, allowing students to learn better in school (Moshahid & Pt 2017). Web-based learning environments can be used as motivation, teaching, modeling, feedback and evaluation tools (Wijekumar, 2005). Web 2.0 tools ensure great occasions for education (Konstantinidis, Theodosiadou & Pappos, 2013), yet their application appear to be underused by teachers (Elmas & Geban, 2012). In addition, teaching with Web 2.0 tools provides students and teachers with a better chance of communicating, with teachers also being able to give their students quick feedback (Halili, 2018). By supporting learning as an enjoyable and experimental approach, Web 2.0 tools also offer students the opportunity to work outside school. In addition, with supporting interactive and collaborative activities, students are given learning environments suitable for the digital age (Olea, 2019). Today, people can easily engage in learning by inter connecting without time and place constraints due to the progress in information and communication technologies (Genç, 2010). Using of Web 2.0 tools in education is important, because of that Web 2.0 tools can be used to improve new learning strategies that can increase student motivation, participation, self-directed learning and simplify learning (Redecker, Punie & Mutka, 2008).