Activity reflection 2

From this activity, I really feel the magic of “sum of human knowledge”.  Unlike blogs belonging to individual, wiki is updated by many people which may has multiple authors. The people work in a group or team need to cooperate with each other. It is an easy website where everyone can easily post and share information. 

What is interesting to me is that people can easily find who has contributed to the wiki for a group work, just by clicking the “recent changes”.  This will effectively avoid “free rider”. Imaging using wiki as a teaching tool in my classroom, I am sure there will be no student complaining to me that “John always utilizes our achievements to win the teacher’s praise” or “William reaps without sowing. I don’t want to join his group” or “Miss He, We don’t want to work with Mike, because he always drags us back as a team member” and so on.

Like blogs, people from different parts of the world can also work on the same subject on wikis, it is a flexible tool which can be used by a wide range of authors. Since collaborative is its typical features, we can draw on the wisdom of the masses which will help the teachers and students to improve their job without a barrier. However, at the same time, precisely because of its collaborative, some teachers may get lost when using a wiki in his class. They can not put themselves in a correct position in the classroom.  Whatever, wiki will bring us a lot of conveniences on the whole. I will try to use wiki as a education setting in my classroom to help the students improve the ability of cooperation in the future, and keep pace with the modern technical education.

wiki link :http://21stcenturywikiclassroom.wikispaces.com/Languages

wiki name: minxu