Week 4 Initial Reaction
My initial reaction to the assignment was not immediate because I did not fully understand wikis even after all of the reading that I did. It made much more sense today after reading the article by Brian Lamb on the pedagogical purposes of wikis. I really liked that he discussed how it could improve writing skills and colloboration with one's peers. It always helps me when I have solid examples and links where I can look for illustrations to compare and gather my own thoughts and ideas on how to arrange the new information in my schema.
posted by nia | 10:31 PM
2 Comments:
Nia,
I often have to learn by doing. Lots of reading about wikis did not leave me with a full understanding of their use. I had to go and see a few of them before I could really understand the depth of their functionality. I also read the article by Lamb, and felt it was good.
Karen
Karen,
Yes in constructivist learning it works best by doing or engaging what is being learned. Information and knowledge is retained better in this format verses just reading and saving it for later use. As has been posted on this blog and the discussion board earlier is class we learn 80% more by what we see, hear, and do.
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