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It’s the Collaboration, Stupid

Will Richardson has another writeup on the collaborative nature of wikis, weblogs, rss, etc. and how they can be applied in educational settings. He talks about the idea of “open” texts – ones which invite revision, sharing, and, I suppose, any other use that people may have for them. It is a very interesting idea.

I do agree with Tom Hoffman (see the Comments section) when he talks about how community authoring of a text in a wiki could be a very complex task, but even those of us who are embracing the newest of the new technologies are still looking at things with our own experience as the context. If you had told me ten years ago that I would be trying to learn how to use something called a wiki or a blog (still hate that word), I would have said, “Wuh-huh?” If we expose our students to the possibility of using these new technologies today, their literacy skills, along with their learning styles, may continue to evolve as our own have done through our generation.

Food for thought, and I just had lunch.

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