Wikinomics: how collaboration will fundamentally change learning
This session was based on the bestseller, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Tapscott and Williams, and emphasized how allowing students to collaborate on projects locally and globally increases their learning. The presenters shared that the last chapter of the book is actually on a wiki.
The powerpoint and other information for the session can be found on the wiki created for the presentation.
One of the presenters is the founder of globalschoolnet.org, a non-profit organization that supports teachers using technology for collaborative projects. Some of the ways that she suggested that collaborative technologies could impact learning are:
flexbooks – wiki versions of textbooks that could be easily update
co-created content where students work in teams to solve a problem or create something
global competition
blended learning spaces where some time is spent in face to face learning and some time is spent with online learning
Several collaborative tools were discussed also.
It is easy to see the value of having students collaborate and write for an authentic audience of their peers.
