Journal Post #8
Chapter 8
Learning Outcomes
Examine wikis as a collaborative learning strategy for
students and teachers.
Wikis
are WebPages that are created and maintained by multiple computer users. Wikis
become collaborative learning environments where teachers and students work
together to investigate topics and share information.
In many classrooms, the
instructor provides most of the course content. With wikis, students have an
opportunity to create – together – much of the course content. Wikis
shift your students from ‘consumer of knowledge’ to ‘creators of knowledge,’
which is a great way to encourage your students to develop critical thinking
skills, to learn from one another, and to improve their ability to work in
groups. There are many benefits of using wikis and you can probably think of other reasons your students
would benefit from using this collaboration tool.
Wikis are ideal for group projects
that emphasize collaboration and editing. Some common uses include:
·
Mini research projects in which the
wiki serves as documentation of student work
·
Collaborative annotated bibliographies
where students add summaries and critiques about course-related readings
·
Compiling a manual or glossary of
useful terms or concepts related to the course, or even a guide to a major
course concept
·
Maintaining a collection of links where
the instructor and students can post, comment, group or classify links relevant
to the course
·
Building an online repository of course
documents where instructors and students can post relevant documents
·
Creating e-portfolios of student work
Digital Dialog
What factors do you think make texting such a popular
communication activity among young people?
Younger
teenagers use both their computers and their mobile phones to surf the Internet
and to send email, but post-16s primarily use their personal computers rather
than their mobiles for both Internet and email.Mobile phones provide a sense of
security: 87% of females, and 68% of males agree that ‘having my mobile phone
makes me feel safer and more secure’. Nearly four out of fi ve females, and 64%
of males, agree that their parents worry less if they have their mobiles.
Texting is the
preferred mode of communication for nearly all social and communication
activities. These include getting information, arranging meetings, sending
thanks, and also relationship activities such as chatting up or fl irting, and
arranging a fi rst date. Text is preferred even for ending a relationship. There
are few sex differences. Females have a greater preference than males have, for
chatting up by text, and for arranging the fi rst date by text. Males would
prefer, more than females, to end a relationship by text.
Summary
Communicating
and social networking technologies provide ways for teachers to connect with
students promote meaningful learning, and extend academic learning beyond the
confines of regular school days. Ways teachers use digital communication is:
teaching, information sharing, and community building, publishing students
work, and energizing students writing.
Resources:
Good summary and you have itemized the salient points. You do want to remember to add in your own perspective about the main ideas, etc. The primary purpose is to do some reflection on what you read and how that might work (or not!) for you in your future classroom, or how you might (or might not!) see its value for learning. Thanks for adding the resources - good to have them.
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