role of wiki
A blog response to- 6 C’s of Motivation
Wang, S. & Han, S. (2001). Six C’s of Motivation. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved 6th nFeb., 2008, (link to article)
Although this article was relevant and useful it is not the main focus on this blog. The site it was found upon is. This is a “wikimedia” space but wikipedia is a problem that teachers must deal with daily in the classroom. I hate wikipedia. Knowledge should not be gained by reading unscholarly works written by people that could have potentially no knowledge. I understand that some of the articles are wonderful but I would never take the risk of advising my students to go to wikipedia for help. Both schools I have completed prac in have no problem with their students looking into wikipedia for general knowledge questions. When questioning them if it is the right website to be advising they said where else do we go?
The lack of teacher development seems to be a main reason for this. Teachers have no idea! This could be because they wish not to have their professional development in the IC field in which case they are terrible teachers or is it that there is not enough development.
One brilliant task that was suggested to me by a fellow student is to teach your class units of work then take them on to wikipedia and they are to EDIT other peoples work and include academic sources for their referencing. Explain the process and why the posts need to be edited by others. This way the students revise the work in a fun task but also they can see how to establish a good wiki site from a bad wiki site. If another teacher advises they use it at least then they have the skills to be critical about the information.
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November 6th, 2008 at 3:12 am
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