Collaborative Wiki

The video that we watched was about the creation of a collaborative wiki for teachers. The teachers wanted a place to share their creations (lessons plans, activities, ressources) with teachers of other districts or even of other states. They created a wiki where they could post their ideas and share them to the public. First only teachers from the same school could edit the wiki but now even other disctricts can add their creations to the wiki. It becomes a great ressouce for teachers and can really help for the preparation. It is a good way to know how it works it other schools too.

I think that a collaborative wiki among teachers is a very good idea! It can really help teachers in sharing their ideas. It can also help having feedback on your creations. If someone edits your lesson plan, you can see it another way and see the improvement. Also, any teacher can use it easily. As Sze (2008) says, it is easy to learn and to work with a wiki. This way, you can have a lot of teachers that contribute to the wiki and this gives a lot of different views and ideas. It makes a diversified collection of ressources for teaching.

Post #1 Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Digital Youth

Hello!

This will be my first post on this blog. It is about the video of Howard Gardner.

M. Gardner talks about his project named the Good Play Project. The purpose of this project is to inform students about the ethical issues of the social medias on internet. As M.Gardner says, children are aware of what it is being ethical but they do not really care being so. They need to be sensibilized with the importance of being ethical so they understand that they should be so. They need to learn about identity, privacy, credibility, ownership and about being part of a community on internet. They need to learn how to act ethically on internet. They need to learn the importance of not hurting people even if you can hide your identity on the web.

I think that this project is a very good idea. Working on internet is a whole different thing then working with people face to face. Being anonymous is pretty easy on internet and with this it is really easy to post things to hurt people without having consequences. Students need to be aware of how they can hurt people if they do not act ethically.