This week we read about blogs and wikis in education. A blog or web log is a communication tool that can be used in very different ways. Primary can they can be use for the discussion of a specific topic. The discussion is listed and then the blog followers can post they opinion base on what they just read in the other posts.
Wikies are virtual sharing spaces. They can be use to share any type of digital information. Collaboration is facilitated through the use of this technology.
I strongly believe in the potential of these technologies in education. However, as any other educational instrument its success is going to be related to the clear educational goal for what it is being used. Garner (2000, p.34) mentions, “Before embracing any new technology, we need to declare our educational goals and demonstrate how a particular technology can help us achieve them.”
Gardner, H. (2000). Can technology exploit our many ways of knowing? 32-35.
2 comments:
Educational goals
What do you see as the educational goal of blogs and wikis? Do you feel they have a place in the traditional classroom? People agree on the implications and benefits of their use in online learning (even if a regular blackboard program is used, wikis provide a project presentation platform), but their actual purpose and use in the traditional classroom is still being examined.
-Tamyra
I agree that before someone can go out and purchase these tools or plan lessons with them, they must first set up goals that they wish to pursue as an end result of using these tools. They must be used in a meaningful and purposeful way to depict the true benefits that are revealed in the outcome of a technological integration in a lesson. Using these tools may speed up and motivate even high-risk students to continue their learning journey.
Heather
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