http://www.sitepoint.com/article/what-is-a-wiki/
A wiki is a software that handles complex problems with simple easy assessable solutions. The first wiki was created 1995 by Cunningham and Bo Leuf, they called it WikiWikieb. These men had in mind an open site that was available for anyone to contribute to. Sounds like a simple idea, and that exactly what it is, simple. Each page on a wiki is able to be changed by anyone at anytime. Wikis are used for a wide variety of tasks, for example: Personal note-taking, Collaborating online, creating an internal knowledge base, assembling an online community, and managing a traditional website.
Wikis allow students to extend their knowledge from the classroom to other classmates or children studying the same subject. They can communicate with these other peers through a journal, like a blog. A wiki created for a curtain course could be very useful to both students and teachers. While serving as the course web site, teachers are able to post notes, diagrams, videos, and even class lectures. The only problem with this, in my opinion is that it wouldn’t be as helpful to the younger students, because their isn’t much instruction to the wiki, its more or less a do it yourself type of learning.
More information would definitely benefit me in my decision on whether or not I approve this as a teaching tool for standard classroom. Some questions I would answer would be: Is this wiki suitable and easy enough for our younger students, and is it too easy for the older grade school students? How is the wiki monitored, and is it completely safe for our children?
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You have some great points in this post. I agree that wikis are simple and easy to to use for most students however some of the information provided may not be completely true, as for blogging. It would be good to have a few other sources to check your research with and make sure your not gathering false information. Maybe to answer your question they could only use wiki in highschool or college instead of something like middle or elementary schools because of the little direction provided with it. I dont believe it is completely safe either unless you kno your in a safe wiki community.
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