Author: abendelow
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"Wiki-fy" don't mean "wipe away"
The school that wants to use wikis is only using new means to the same goal: to more effectively get more students learning. Those of us who have been using them know that students seem engaged more in their learning. But the learning itself, the curricular components and theoretical principles, aims and standards, are not…
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Reasons teachers should use wikis
Vicki Davis (2007) reminds us of some ways that wikis answer the educational demands of the present and can be integrated with best practices. Classrooms using wikis provide for: Authentic assessment–the broad knowledge base and complexity of the skills on display Project-based learning–this is where teachers can drive the digital native’s trains–they’re collaborating/conferring/considerding/compromising anyway (through…
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New skin for the old ceremony
A discipline plan for teachers put out on curriki, a not for profit sharing site for teachers. The plan reminds me of my early days in the 80s at Fenwick and Mt. Carmel, when, as a lieutenant in the Catholic young men army of the Archdioscese of Chicago, I had occasion to run into the…
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First, you feel afraid,
and it’s totally normal. Change is fearful. But it gives us a chance to exercise our courage when we face our fears and move on, graceful under the pressure of imminent destruction/damage.
The Wikiness 