home

Instructional Strategies Wiki [|www.articulate.com]

The correlation between learning strategies and wikis is implicit. Both serve to increase the “sum of all human knowledge” (Wales, 2004). Wiki’s create access to that knowledge via the Web, while learning strategies accomplish the same thing through classroom instruction. This wiki works to bring both avenues together.

History of the Wiki

Created in 1995, by Ward Cunningham, the wiki was intended to be a writing tool that would inspire individuals to publish easily. This tool would be completely “editable”, allowing everyone equal access to create, add to, delete, or edit an entry on any topic. This empowered the general public to have a voice in the information available on the Web. The success of wikis is based on the premise that everyone together is smarter than any one person alone (Richardson, 2006). Recently, more secure types of wikis have been created to support the use of wikis in the classroom.

Wikis in the Classroom The freedom and power explained above can be brought through wiki usage into the classroom. Providing students with editorial control can empower them with a sense of responsibility and ownership. Students can experience being part of the “sum of human knowledge”. They can partake in creating an on-line, text compliment to a curriculum or a school based online encyclopedia, where the student body works to create a body of knowledge that is relevant to them and what is happening in their world (Richardson, 2006). Students develop skill in collaboration, publishing and writing.

This Wiki…

This wiki is a collection of different learning strategies that can be used in the classroom. Much like a wiki, learning strategies are tools we use to increase the availability of knowledge to learners. As you travel through the various pages of this wiki, you will find an interconnected web of ideas that can assist teachers in reaching different types of students with different learning style through different methods and lesson types.

Feedback: Looks Great! Prefect!