Post on 01-Apr-2015
Trends and Issues
Wikis in Education
Created by Brendon Wadewww.bwade.com.au
Introduction 1
• What is a wiki?
-Online Web 2.0 collaboration tool
-Easy to use
-Asynchronous
-Hyper linking ability
-Trackability
-Example• Research
-ERIC and EdITLib databases
-Peer Reviewed Literature
-Limited amount in primary and secondary education
Introduction 2
• Distribution of articles across the education sectors
Primary (4)
Secondary (2)
Higher Education (1)
Cross Sector (1)
Introduction 3
• Distribution of articles by country of origin
Hong Kong (2)
Australia (2)
UK (2)
Japan (1)
Spain (1)
Trends 1• Diversity in learning tasks across research
Researchers Educational Sector and Year Level
Learning Area Task Title Sample Size
Hastie, Casey and Tarter (2010)
Secondary: Year 10/11 Physical Education PE Invasion Game 28 students
Mak and Coniam (2008)
Primary: Year 7 Literacy: Writing School Brochure 24 students
Tokito and Kubota (2011)
Primary: Year 3 Culture Intercultural Understanding
32 students
Grant (2009) Secondary: Year 9 History Innovation in Technology since the 1950s
45 students (estimate)
Piffaré and Staarman (2011)
Primary: Year 3/4 Science Colony on Mars 25 students(12 students in depth)
Woo, Chu, Ho and Li (2011)
Primary: Year 5 Literacy: Writing Text About an Animal
38 students
Thompson and Absalom (2011)
Secondary/Tertiary: Year 11/12, undergraduate students
Italian Italian Regions 45 students (estimate)
Ruth and Houghton (2009)
Tertiary: undergraduate and graduate students
Workforce Technology
Mobile Workforce Technology Textbook
86 students
Trends 2
• Common thread of collaborative writing
• Trends categorised as
-Collaborative / Social
-Cognitive
-Pedagogical
-Technological
Trends 3
• Collaborative / Social Trends
-collaborative nature of wikis
-equality
Trends 4
• Cognitive Trends
-higher order thinking
-Thinking Together: Neil Mercer video
-reflective tool
-collective ownership of co-constructed work
Trends 5
• Pedagogical Trends
-motivation and engagement
-authentic tasks
-Experts in the Field
-assessment
-scaffolding learning
-shift from consumers to creators of knowledge
-variety of learning areas
Trends 6
Physical Education
Writing
Cultural
History
Science
Italian
WorkforceTechnology
Learning areas represented
Trends 7
• Technological Trends
-24/7 virtual classroom
-Trackability function
Issues 1
• Trends can also present as the issues• Solutions can be found for many issues
• Issues categorised as
-Collaborative / Social
-Research Related
-Pedagogical
-Technological
Issues 2
• Collaborative / Social Issues
-difficulty with editing work of peers
-social conflicts
Issues 3
• Research Related Issues
-limitation of available research
-limitation of primary school related research
Issues 4
• Pedagogical Issues
-prior skills needed
Issues 5
• Technological Issues
-technology mediated learning environment
-slow loading problems
Conclusion
• Harnessing the affordances of wikis• Finding solutions to issues• Future research opportunities• Future potential is immense
References
Grant, L. (2009). ‘I don’t care do ur own page!’ A case study of using wikis for collaborative work in a UK secondary school. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2), 105-117.
Hastie, P.A., Casey, A. & Tarter, A. (2010). A case study of wikis and student-designed Games in physical education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 19(1), 79-91.
Herrington, J., Reeves, T.C. & Oliver, R. (2010). A guide to authentic e-learning. Routledge: London and New York.
Mak, B. & Coniam, D. (2008). Using wikis to enhance and develop writing skills among secondary school students in Hong Kong. System: An International Journal of Educational
Technology and Applied Linguistics, 36(3), 437-455.Pifarré, M. & Staarman, J.K. (2011). Wiki-supported collaborative learning in primary Education: How a
dialogic space is created for thinking together. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 6, 187-205.Ruth, A. & Houghton, L. (2009). The wiki way of learning. Australasian Journal of Educational
Technology, 25(2), 135-152.Thompson, C. & Absalom, M. (2011). Working with wikis: Collaboration, authorship and assessment in
higher education. In S. Barton et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 (pp. 375-384). AACE.
Tokito, J. & Kubota, K. (2011). A study on effect of inter-school collaborative learning with overseas through using ICT. In S. Barton et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 (pp. 385-387). AACE.
Woo, M., Chu, S., Ho, A. & Li, X. (2011). Using a wiki to scaffold primary-school students’ collaborative writing. Educational Technology & Society, 14(1), 43-54.
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~Brendon