While I did not notice any teachers implementing anything cool in their classrooms, this week was a great week for student technology use. As part of a genetics project that the students were working on, they had to create wiki pages. Each student was assigned a genetics disease. They were responsible for researching the disease and posting the answer to three questions that focused of the “big ideas” behind the disease. I also said that they had to include a picture that best represented the condition they researched. Well, I was pleasantly surprise by what I got. Many of the student really out did themselves including many graphics and citations to accompany their research. Several students in each class also included videos they found on youtube. This added an extra layer to there presentation but also showed me that the student really were engaged in the project and in the process were learning the many possible ways to gather information from the internet. All-in-all, I was extremely proud of my students’ work!
April 1, 2009
April 15, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Try to reflect a little more as to the pros and cons of using a wiki in this context.