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Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.
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Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom is a professional development program for teachers co-developed by the Wikimedia Foundation with community partners. Based upon UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework, the program helps both educators and students to develop vital skills for the 21st century, including:
Oct 6, 2013 · On the road to effective use of wiki in the classroom, your first step is to find a wiki site suitable for you and your students. Check out this short video by YouTube user Vanessa Van Edwards for a short overview of what a wiki is and how it can be a beneficial educational tool for teachers.
- It’s a good place to start: Wikipedia is the first place many of us go when we want to know something. If you just need a general overview of something and how it connects to other topics, there’s really no better place to go than Wikipedia.
- It contains lots of basic facts: Sometimes you need a generic fact, and Wikipedia is about as authoritative a citation as you probably need for a factoid like: the deepest part of the world’s oceans is the Challenger Deep.
- It leads students to additional sources: Even if Wikipedia is not typically an acceptable citation (you can have students read the site’s disclaimer explaining as much), it’s a fantastic starting place for students to ground themselves in a topic.
- It’s where history is actively being written: Having a Wikipedia page is a new metric of legitimacy for historical and living figures. For example, there’s an effort to create Wikipedia pages to recognize the underappreciated role of women in science.
1. Allow students time to re-read their own stories and to discuss the use of images or links to add new information to the stories with their partners. 2. Have students read their classmates' stories, editing and changing them.
A wiki is a collaborative tool that allows students to contribute and modify one or more pages of course related materials. Wikis are collaborative in nature and facilitate community-building within a course. Essentially, a wiki is a web page with an open-editing system.
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Designing the wiki learning space before a course begins guides student input and enables students to successfully complete the wiki assignment. Wiki design includes creating pages, assigning permissions as to who may write on a page, or creating a table or grid for student contributions on the pages.
