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News: When Wikipedia Is the Assignment - Inside Higher Ed
Wonderful idea of getting students to post their finished term papers as a Wikipedia entry. That way their term papers become " shared, public online documents" and " have characteristics in common with parts of the academic review process."
Excerpt from article: "The shift to thinking about placing the term paper as a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry allows for another level of peer review," Groom said. Such entries have references and citations; allow for a process of repeated, continual editing; and encourage collaborations between authors.
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At the same time, Groom felt that after her two experiments were over, it was clear that she needed her students to publish to Wikipedia earlier in the process rather than go through their revisions offline, so to speak, before uploading the entry a single time. Doing so would also take better advantage of the collaborative nature of the site itself.
10 Best Practices for using wikis in education « Technology Teacher
Just because you build a wiki, doesn’t mean they will come. This has been my and other faculty members’ experiences in using wikis in the classroom. We all know the feeling . . . the excitement of seeing and then using a type of software that should be just perfect to engage students and to enable community-building. We work during our break time to incorporate this learning technology in our course only to find out that students aren’t that excited about it. I think one of the reasons for the lackluster student enthusiasm toward any type of new technology tool is that they need to learn it. I’m not saying that students are lazy . . . it’s just that the internal question, “what’s in it for me?” probably needs to be answered.
Digitally Speaking / FrontPage
Our kids’ futures will require them to be:
* Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.”
* More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information.
* More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world.
* Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids.
* More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically.
* Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice.
* More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world.
* Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
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- Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.”
- More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information.
- More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world.
- Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids.
- More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically.
- Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice.
- More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world.
- Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
Our kids’ futures will require them to be:
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lassrooms are often simplistic places where students are prepared for today, but completely unprepared for tomorrow.
Web 2.0 in Education (UK) Home - Web 2.0 in Education (UK)
An interesting collection of web 2.0 tools for the classroom.
mathvideos » home
A clever wiki demonstrating various academic skills - grammar, math, etch. Well done!
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