After reading about wikis I now understand what they
are. Technology plays a big role in
easily providing sources for students who are writing papers. Now within seconds of typing their topic into
Google, thousands of websites come up offering all sorts of information about their
topic. Wikipedia is one of the first
sources that come up for students and a lot of times students usually end up
using Wikipedia.
Wikis are just another way that I can have students participate in
the classroom that will hopefully engage them more since it would be an
assignment that uses the computer to complete it. Working with wikis in class will help my students
learn to collaborate together on assignments and to understand that they can
always make their assignments better if they continue to work on them.
One thing that I will do differently as a future
teacher is allow my students to use Wikipedia as a starting point for their assignments
that cause them to do research. If you
look at the bottom of a Wikipedia page there are small numbers with links after
them that correspond to items in the text above, saying that this is the
website where this information came from.
I would ask that my students use the credible links by the numbers for
the sources for their assignment. I will
also start using a RSS feed to help filter things. I have heard the term RSS feed used before
but never really understood it till I read chapter 5. Using the RSS feed would make it really easy
for me to pull up current articles for class time when we talk about current
events.
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