Friday, June 1, 2012

Wiki in Education

The link to the hearing loss prevention page is pasted below:
http://healtheducation4you.wikispaces.com/7.+Hearing+Loss+Prevention


Oh the world of wiki and the places to see and things you could do with it. I think students would learn to love wiki. They would be allowed to avoid actual face-to-face communication and feel more comfortable collaborating with their peers online. Especially in middle school, students have an increased sense of being shy or too embarrassed to express their true feelings and ideas.


There are three main ways in which wiki’s would be used in my classroom:

1.    Group/Whole Class assignments – In this situation, I would assign students to complete word problems or any math problem for that matter. Each student would complete only one step at a time for the problem until the final resolution is found. Each student would be responsible for checking the previous persons work and verify it is correct.

2.    Create a list of steps – For this, students would create a list and explain each step to a specific math problem. Just like above, they would be responsible for verifying correctness from the previous person. Having students explain reasoning for each step makes their step concrete.

3.    Co-worker Collaborations – Many times teachers are expected to create ideas to submit to the principal or staff. A wiki would help teachers be able to save time by meeting face-to-face and be able to create the same if not a better document. Some specific examples would be lesson plans, field trip plans, celebrations or dances, etc.

Being able to post images, videos, documents, and links helps a lot in making sure every person is on the same page. Wiki’s eliminate scattered e-mail and missed or mixed messages. 

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