Wikis In Education

Teaching in a Participatory Culture How wikis can support learning

The World is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
Describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world
Implications for educational systems
http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2005/05/000835.php

The Flatteners
Fall of the Berlin Wall / rise of Windows OS
Netscape IPO / dotcom boom
Work flow software / design, display, manage, and collaborate

The Flatteners
Open sourcing / self organizing collaborative communities
Outsourcing
Offshoring
Supply-chaining
In-forming (affinity networks)

The Flatteners
The Steroids: Digital, Mobile, Personal, and Virtual
These are all the “new” gadgets, technologies, social norms and values, and etc. that are accelerating the other flatteners

Dr. Daggett’s Mega-Trends
Globalization
Demographics
Technology
Changing Values and Attitudes
http://www.leadered.com/whitepapers - Preparing Students for Their Future

Global Implications
These changes, among others, are ushering us toward a world where knowledge, power, and productive capability will be more dispersed than at any time in our history—a world where value creation will be fast, fluid, and persistently disruptive.
A world where only the connected will survive.
Don Tapscott - Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Global Implications
A power shift is underway, and a tough new business rule is emerging: Harness the new collaboration or perish.
Those who fail to grasp this will find themselves ever more isolated—cut off from the networks that are sharing, adapting, and updating knowledge to create value.
Don Tapscott - Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer

Get flat or be flattened

Web 2.0 The evolution of the semantic read/write web

Web 1.0  Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of static websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users.
Tim O’Reilly

Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture Media Education for the 21 st Century

“ If it were possible to define generally the mission of education, it could be said that its fundamental purpose is to ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, [Creative] and economic life.”
— New London Group (2000)
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century - Henry Jenkins 10/19/06

Participatory Culture
According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced.

A Participatory Culture . . .
Relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
Strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others
Some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices

A Participatory Culture . . .
Members believe that their contributions matter
Members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created)

Forms of Participatory Culture
Affiliations — memberships, formal and informal, in online communities centered around various forms of media, such as Friendster, Facebook, message boards, metagaming, Second Life, or MySpace, wikis
Expressions — producing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups

Forms of Participatory Culture
Collaborative Problem-solving — working together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (such as through Wikipedia , alternative reality gaming, spoiling).
Circulations — Shaping the flow of media (such as podcasting, blogging).

Implications
A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including:
opportunities for peer-to-peer learning,
a changed attitude toward intellectual property,
the diversification of cultural expression,
the development of skills valued in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.

Implications
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking.
These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.

The New Literacies
Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

The New Literacies
Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources

The New Literacies
Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

Wikinomics
In the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions.
While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics explains how to prosper in a world where new communications technologies are democratizing the creation of value.
http://www.wikinomics.com/

What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a type of free on-line writing space that allows users to add, modify and update its pages.
If something is missing or incorrect in a wiki and permissions allow you to edit the wiki, you can easily add your thoughts or make changes to the wiki.
It is essentially a fully editable web site.
http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wikis

How is a Wiki Constructed?
A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is “the wiki”

Philosophy of Wikis
The process is the product.
Meaning is developed and guided out of the social interactions at the point where text is created.
One of the most obvious benefits of using a wiki is the ability to offer a quick way to collaborate textually, while creating a content rich web site. Where the knowledge of the group is greater than an individual, and the end product is the result of the groups interactions.

Philosophy of Wikis
Wikis are generally designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them.

Application of New Literacies
Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

Are Wikis Safe?
Thus while wikis are very open, they provide a means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages.
The most prominent, on almost every wiki, is the "Recent Changes" page—a specific list numbering recent edits, or a list of all the edits made within a given timeframe.

Tracking Changes

Using Wikis as a Source
Wikipedia is as reliable as other external sources we rely on.
Properly written articles cite the sources, and a reader should rely on the Wikipedia article as much, but no more, than the sources the article relies on.
If an article doesn't cite its sources, it may or may not be reliable.
A More Reliable Wikipedia?
http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/pennsylvania/2007/02/a_more_reliable.html

What the Experts are Saying
Wikis are helping young people develop “writing skills and social skills by learning about group consensus and compromise—all the virtues you need to be a reasonable and productive member of society.”
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

What the Experts are Saying
“The media is controlled by people who have the resources to control it,” he says. “Wikis show that all of us have an equal opportunity to contribute to knowledge.”
Andy Garvin, head of the Digital Divide Network

Ways to Use Wikis
Use for student projects where group members need to contribute at different times and from geographically diverse locations.
Use for collaborating on ideas and organizing documents and resources from individuals and groups of students.
Use as a presentation tool where those who attend a workshop can contribute to future versions of the workshop.
As a group research project for a specific idea.
Manage school and classroom documents.

Ways to Use Wikis
Use as a collaborative handout for students.
Writing: student created books and journaling. (i.e. Wikibooks )
Create and maintain a classroom FAQ
As a classroom discussion and debate area.
A place to aggregate web resources.
Choose a topic on Wikipedia , break the topic into facts, students verify the facts using their information literacy skills, and make changes accordingly (Citing sources).

Class Wikis

Class Wikis – Online Content

Class Wikis - Webquests

Class Wikis – Student Collaboration

Professional Learning Communities

PLC – Professional Research

PLC – Virtual Training

PLC – Curricular Collaboration

PLC – Supporting Teachers http://holicong.wikispaces.com/New+Teachers

Links to Getting Started
Wiki Walk-Through http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/
What’s a wiki?
Who uses wikis?
Wikis or blogs?
How to use wikis with students.
Ideas for activities, projects, collaborations, etc.
Using wikis in Education (blog) http://ikiw.org/
Classroom use of wikis
http://dorman-data-digest.wikispaces.com/

Wikispaces
Wikispaces is offering K-12 organizations their premium membership for free
No advertisements
Greater storage capacity
Enhanced privacy settings
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K

To Learn More . . . http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Wikis

Web 2.0 Applications for Wikis

SlideShare
SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows
Users can upload PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into blogs or websites, browse others' presentations, and comment on individual slides
Transcripts of presentations will be indexed by internet search engines and show up in search results
http://www.slideshare.net

Embedded SlideShare File http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/Conferences

PollDaddy
PollDaddy is a free online tool, which allows you to create polls and place them on your website, wiki, blog, or anywhere online that you can paste a bit of HTML code.
You can also place links to PollDaddy polls in your emails etc.
http://polldaddy.com/

TeacherTube
Upload, tag and share videos worldwide.
Upload support files to attach your educational activities, assessments, lesson plans, notes, and other file formats to your video.
Browse hundreds of videos uploaded by community members.
Find, join and create video groups to connect with people who have similar interests.
Customize the experience by subscribing to member videos, saving favorites, and creating playlists.
Integrate TeacherTube videos on websites using video embeds or APIs.
Make videos public or private - users can elect to broadcast their videos publicly or share them privately with those they invite.
http://www.teachertube.com

TeacherTube Embedded Video

The Ease of Video
Eyespot
http://www.eyespot.com/
Jumpcut
http://www.jumpcut.com/
Cuts
http://www.cuts.com/
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/

Swivel
Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.
http:// www.swivel.com /tour/intro
Swivel is full of good stuff. Think of it like this:
Explore popular data or obscure data. Search for it or have fun cruising all the colorful graphs, data sets and opinions.
Compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. You might find a crazy coincidence or something more.
Share your insights by embedding a graph to your blog or emailing a link to your friends and coworkers.
Upload the information you care about, describe it, pick a color scheme and even pick a cool photo to bring it to life.
http://www.swivel.com

Swivel http://www.swivel.com

More Web 2.0 Application
For a more comprehensive list of Web 2.0 applications, visit:
http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/Social+Learning

The illiterate of the 21 st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

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