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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. They only teach you stuff any fool can look up in a book Calvin & Hobbes 7. INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE ASSIGNMENTS USING WIKI TECHNOLOGY MAARTEN CANNAERTS AND GREET LANGIE Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst CAMPUS De NayerWALTER LAURIKS Leuven Catholic University Department of physics HILDE CRETEN AND HERMAN BUELENS Leuven Catholic University DUO/ICTO 8. can be translated frompedagogeseto English as INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE ASSIGNMENTS USING WIKI TECHNOLOGY 9. 10. The maindangers in this lifeare the people who want tochange everything or nothing.Nancy Astor 11. Anexpert is someone who knows some of theworst mistakeswhich can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr 12.

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The world is changing!

Our students are changing

• (are these different things?)

18.

There is a different kind of logic at work(Frand, 2000, the information age mindset )

• .. is NOT technology

• .. replaces TV

• . is better than writing

• .. is a way of life

• ... is more important than knowing

• ................................................................is essential, always-everywhere

• ..is preferred to conventional logic

• Computer

• Internet

• Typing

• Multitasking

• Doing

• Connectivity and communication

• Nintendo (trial and error)

19. 20. 21.

? How can we make learningrelevant andfun for our students ?

22. Learning is asocial process Do our digital learning environments reflectthis statement? 23. 24. 25. We learn our children to TALK, WALK and PLAY until they are the age of three 26. and then we teach them to SHUT UP, SIT DOWN, and BE SERIOUS 27. 28. http://www.sxc.hu/profile/zirzuke There is no prize for predicting rain.There is only a prize for building an ark. NATO secretary-general Lord Robertson 29.

? How can we make learningrelevant andfun for our students ?

30. Context

Physics course, 1 styear engineering students

Intradisciplinary work? (4 year curriculum 5 year curriculum)

Collaborative work?

Using technologies?

31. A complex setting!

Students located at two institutes

geographically distant.

Two different disciplines.

Two different professors.

More or less similar course topic (physics polarization)

32. 33. 34. Kids lovewhat tech does ,not what it is eSchool News online 35. 36. 37. 38. What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0

• Second generation web-based (internet) tools

• focused at communication, collaboration and exchange of ideas/ information/ materials/ software

• • ( social constructivism,anyone? )

39.

Whats a wiki to you?

Wiki is my middle name!

Wiki hmm heard of it

Wiki? Pedia?

40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Advantages of using wikis

Ease of use, online and flexible (anytime anywhere)

Simultaneous editing

Backtracking (view changes);

Fast collaboration

Version management

Not person oriented but task oriented

50.

Using wiki technology has led to better learning

(not mere copy-pasting of text material)

51.

Using wiki technology has led to better learning

52. but

Some technical issues

Collaboration is very task oriented

Face to face collaboration works faster and easier

Lack of social control

53. Peer grading tool

Students claim to know better who did what, and

can give a fair grade

but

Do not (really) use tools

• Logbook

• Version backtracking

54. The future? 55. If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research. Albert Einstein 56.

Wiki technology

• Empirical proof about didactical advantage(s)

Peer grading tool

• Improve feedback given to students

• What (implicit or explicit) grading criteria do the students use?

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