Reflection 3.2 Wikis for learning
Write a blog reflection, identifying the functionality of your wiki. Then think of your pedagogy, and content. How could your wiki be useful for teaching in your own teaching context? Use the SAMR model (as usual, and for the balance of your explorations of technologies) to propose the use of wikis in your own classrooms at each level of the model. So the wiki setup was fairly simple using the instruction sheet. After the appealing look of weebly, I find the look of wiki not as user-friendly. The other down-side to wiki that I have now experienced first hand doing the GDLT is where someone in the group accidentally deletes or changes an important shared document / item. This would mean in a classroom setting going over rules and etiquette and getting perhaps the students themselves to have a list of wiki rules to have on the site and reassess on a regular basis. I imagine that will change with more familiarizing. Watching the clip below gave me a great idea for using wiki in my classroom.
My mind went to St Brendan's College. The students on each Thursday assist with "Eddie's Van" where meals are given to those in need. It is in co-ordination with St Vincent de Paul. I think it would be a fantastic project for the students to co-ordinate the Eddie's Van requirements using wiki. Looking at senior Social and Community Studies syllabus on the QCAA site, one of the learning benefits is that: "the development of citizenship skills helps you to become an active and contributing member of society and allows you to understand and empathise with different perspectives, and within various social contexts".
(https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_social_comm_14_sas_guide.pdf) So the co-ordination part of the project would be made so much more stream-lined, just like the camping trip co-ordination in the clip above. It would move in to redefinition once we add in the aspect of real-life social investigation and the sharing of thoughts and possible solutions or improvements. The ICT in this case would redefine how the students provide assessment on their social and citizenship investigation.
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