For this last wiki exercise, I read about wikis in the classroom. Up until recently, I really only thought about web 2.0 technology in higher-level education. Boy was I taken aback when I read about teachers using wikis, blogs, etc in younger aged classrooms! I am impressed and flabbergasted at the same time (but in a good way). One of the posters claims they use wikis as a "literature circle with 4th graders in another state." Where the students use the wikis to discuss books and ask questions or receive new book recommendations. This is amazing! So naturally, I was curious to find out how wikis are used in grade school classrooms. This is what I found: http://wikieducator.org/Wikis_in_elementary_schools
I'm guessing this isn't an all inclusive list, but there were enough wikis in there for me to have a discussion with my husband about how we learned about/with technology as compared to how our daughter will learn about/with technology. It will be quite different! Right now, teachers are using wikis to have discussions with other students, collaborate on projects, story time, games, and more. I think I'm going to research this further - it might even turn into my research paper!
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