Turning web 2.0 tools into tools for teaching statistics

Abstract

This paper aims at stressing the opportunities provided by the web 2.0 for introducing a new approach to statistics in schools and academia. Our approach is supported by two strictly connected motives: first, the web 2.0 new technology, widespread and easy to use, allows strong interactivity, facilitates and encourages a continuous evaluation of the stuff found in the web. Second, students use this technology in their everyday life for communicating, playing, listening to music, downloading movies and also studying. This paper aims at showing that Statistics education could profit from the combination of these two aspects, describing how some websites provide interactive lessons, explanations, information about data (metadata), ways of representing statistical information and so on.