An extended social space of the Internet in educational activities of middle school students

Abstract

The Internet, particularly Web 2.0 version, extended a social space in a special manner. From a perspective of a researcher, what is interesting is growingup of a society to new social spaces rather than assimilation of socially wellformed and mature part of this society. In this scope, the analysis of public opinion research reports of leading opinion poll institutions in Poland was conducted, together with one’s own research studies carried out in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie Area with the population of about 500,000 inhabitants. In latter studies special attention was focused on educational significance of the Internet for a generation of teenagers. The findings of one’s own research studies are considerably convergent with those ones published in reports of CBOS and OBOP opinion poll institutes, however, they are characterized by greater precision in terms of educational applications of the Internet.