I have opportunity to know various perspectives of the visitors who visited my blog. These opinions are great benefit for me. The issue is about advantages and disadvantages of wiki. We are going to discuss further about them.
Have you ever assigned the students to search for knowledge from wiki and reported in front of the class? You may be seen that sometimes the information was not direct to the information that we have known before. An obvious example is about “the biography of significant”. Sometimes the owner of those significant had to correct his/her biography because it was not correct. The question is “Does wiki good or no good?”
Disadvantage of wiki: If the students only shallow search for information without considering carefully that there is “a note” from wiki that indicates that some information is during the process of reviewing, they may use incorrect information. Even though in case of the students may not consider the credibility of the references as well.
Advantage of wiki: It is a good starting point that allows the students to search for knowledge from wiki and the students can link to various sources. We should thank www. because when we search for knowledge from www. ,it seems we enter “ Alice in Wonderland “. We are enjoyable, exciting and be able to discuss or add the information from wiki. If Archimedes was born at present time, he was not necessary to soak in the bathtub and naked run with shouting Eureka! Eureka! He has just sat in front of the computer; there is a lot of information gushingly from around the world. Archimedes will run to the King and shout “wiki! Wiki! instead of “Eureka! Eureka!”We are the teacher of the globalization world. Do we want our students to be “Archimedes” for tomorrow?
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I like this story "Archimedes"!
ReplyDeleteWikis might be the best example of how teaching and learning changing. Thank you for raising this issue it is a really important thing that teachers should be considering how to help students to get right information and gain knowledge. Teachers can make worksheets or give them the objective of learning,after that should let's them sharing what they know.
Wikis are gaining popularity in an educational setting. I like Wikis because it made more collaboration.
That's the reason why we can't use wiki as our bibliography. It provides us the references to help us understand what we don't know. But wiki sometime will mislead us if anyone put wrong explanation under the topic.
ReplyDeleteI like to read your topic however I believe that teachers can suggest the information about wiki to the students and do the right way.
ReplyDeleteThe point of credible sources come to my mind. We should always stress to our students about analyzing information carefully from online sources. Can you please tell me how people post information on wiki? Is there any special process?
ReplyDeleteThankyou for your posting
ReplyDeleteI agree with your advantage and disadvantage but I think It's more powerful if we use wikis in our classroom.
Dear Benjams
ReplyDeleteI agree with you to use various tools for teaching. Wiki is one of many tools to facilitate teaching and learning.
Dear Vivi
ReplyDeleteThis is the weak point of wiki because the information may not exactly true 100%. Anyhow we can participate to comment and correct it.
Dear Rattana
ReplyDeleteThat's true, it's a duty of us to teach our students to consider the reliability of information.
Dear Paponphet
ReplyDeleteEverything has two sides. It depends on us to consider carefully before using it.