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  • 19 Nov 09
    • Take, for example, 'Web 2.0,'" she says. "I take six new terms having to do with 'Web 2.0' and create a page in the wiki for each term. I give the students a template and say, 'This is a structure of what I want you to find. Find examples, write reviews.' Then I pair them up, and they complete the wiki forms in groups. They have to ask themselves, 'What do I not know about this topic?' So they formulate their questions and go on the Internet -- no copy and pasting allowed -- and every source is hyperlinked."
    • Another of Davis's projects has her tenth graders collaborating on a joint wiki with a class in Bangladesh, based on Thomas Friedman's book, The World Is Flat. Together, the two classes will create a wiki encyclopedia of the impacts of Friedman's so-called flatteners -- offshoring, open source technology, the fall of communism -- as observed from Camilla and from Dhaka.
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