I found a case study on whether or not Wikis were good to add to classroom learning.
The case study starts out by giving some background information on what exactly Wikis are. It then went into the theory of what a community with Wikis would provide. The Case study was to be done to three Year 9 classes. The teacher separated the class into groups of six to nine students. Each group is given a different wiki and told to research technology and how it affects things such as music. The entire case study is extremely interesting as it states the positive and negative effects of wikis in the classroom. One group of students had a very bad experience with the Wikis and ended up writing a lot of mean things back and forth and becoming hostile while others took the criticism a lot more maturely. The problem I see is in the way people handle being corrected. In the first group one of the girls tried correcting something the boy wrote saying it was not part of the assignment and he got very hostile. In the second group the girl praise the boy on his work well done but criticized some other work. The second boy took the criticism and fixed the problem.
In my opinion I do not think Wikis are good idea in the class room because some students to not like to stand to be corrected by another students and get very upset. I think that maybe in a computer class Wikis would be a wonderful idea but it is just too open to change for any other subject. Anyone in the group can go in delete and add things to the wiki, making it very susceptible to arguments.
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/discussion_papers/Wikis_in_Schools.pdf
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It was very interesting to see the differnt outcomes from the various groups using wikis in the classroom. I firmly agree that using wikis would create some major problems. We, as humans do not like to be judged or corrected and some individuals may not be very open to the constructive critisicm that is offered through the use of wikis.
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