The use of wiki’s in the classroom can be valuable as students and teachers have a tool to facilitate their learning. Now students have a place to discuss and contribute to a subject at anytime and almost any place. Teachers too can monitor the tool and be able to see what students have to say on a subject outside of the classroom. Maybe a students doesn’t want to speak up in class but has a great idea, this idea could be placed on the wiki and be equally as important as one spoken in the class.
I can foresee myself using a wiki in numerous classes; the tool is great for allowing student involvement. For example, I could have a computer science project due and the group could communicate and hand in their project online on the wiki.
Through the wiki it should become obvious as to whether students are learning or not if the teacher is constantly monitoring the updates to the wiki. A teacher can see the progress of a project and also see where a project is stalled. This allows the teacher to be able to step up and help the group move on with the project.
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And one of the differences here - and I hope this was intentional, is that you are talking about monitoring the learning process and not just evaluating the learning outcome. The final mark, that "critical grade" often tells us nothing about the learning process that took place. However, being able to interact with students in blogs (such as this) or a wiki, that is where teachers can see the learning and thinking that is going on.
MM
It was intentional.
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