Why use a wiki?

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Two PerspectivesCollaborative Learning

Brain-based Learning

Collaborative Learning

A rose by any other name……Communities of PracticeProfessional learning communitiesLearning communitiesLearning circlesOthers???

One + One Is More than Two…It is essential to create

collaborative knowledge building environments that involve more than individual knowledge acquisition and support students’ practices of knowledge elaboration, creation and advancement.

(Bereiter, 2002).

Pushing the Boundaries….In collaborative

knowledge building environments, knowledge building becomes a key task whereby learners “deliberately and through their collective agency push the boundaries of their knowledge (Suthers, 2005, p. 297)”

Active EngagementRather than simply

listening to lectures and reading text, learner participation in collaborative knowledge building environments provide the agency to move the learner from a passive recipient of information to active involvement.

Acquiring Collaborative Skills….One of the greatest

challenges to education in a knowledge society is not how to effectively help learners to acquire a defined set of knowledge and skills, but in helping them to learn how to manage, work creatively with ideas and to contribute to the creation of new knowledge (Law & Wong, 2003).

What can we do in collaborative environments?

Work in collaborative knowledge building environments focuses on “discourse activities such as questioning, proposing, arguing, critiquing, clarifying, negotiating, accusing, repairing, agreeing are as important as the artifact around which, through which and into which the discourse moves (Stahl, 2002, p 63) .”

Brain-Based Learning

Our brains have limitations…..

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/memory.html

How many words can you remember?1. yellow2. pieces3. dog4. wool5. window6. table7. quickly8. lamp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr/brain_mind/memoryrev3.shtml

A dog looked through a window and saw a yellow car drive quickly down the road. The dog barked and knocked a lamp off the table, which broke into pieces on the wool carpet.

Temporal ContiguityTemporal Contiguity Principle-"Students

learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively (Mayer, 2001)

Choosing a wikiEmbedded

AngelMoodleBlackboard

Most popularPbWorksWikispacesWebpaint

EvaluationWikimatrix

Three types of spacesPublic

Can be viewed by anyoneCan be edited by anyone

ProtectedCan be viewed by anyoneCan be edited by selected few

PrivateCan be viewed by selected fewCan be edited by selected few

http://rachelboyd.wikispaces.com/wikiworkshops

Creating a wikiSigning upAdding a pageEditing a pageAdding a

graphic or fileAdding usersAdding widgets

Long Term StrategiesLearning theories projectUnit project

Short Term ProjectsVideo PlaylistRoleplayAnalysis GridDebateGallery Walk

EtiquetteStudents locking

each other out during editing process

Students accidentally erasing each other’s work

Students maintaining accountability for contributing to wiki development

CaveatsStudents’ reluctance

to edit other students’ work

Student acceptance of new ways of authoring

Students’ resistance to collaboration