Chapters
From WikifiedSchools
Under each chapter heading you will find additional resources for each topic. Some of these were referenced in the book and others have been added since publication of the book. Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Organization and Collaboration in the B.W. (Before Wiki) Era
Chapter 2: What is a wiki?
Chapter 3: Why Use a Wiki?
Concerns
"Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” (Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams)
"Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” (Clay Shirky)
21st Century Skills
According to a 2008 statement from the National Council of Teachers of English, Twenty-first century readers and writers need to
- Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
- Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
- Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
- Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
- Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
- Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
In his recent book The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner describes seven new survival skills that our students need to be successful in the 21st-Century workplace. This list of survival skills is derived from scores of interviews with business leaders around the nation and is grounded in the real skills that employers want from new employees today:
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
- Agility and Adaptability
- Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
- Effective Oral and Written Communication
- Accessing and Analyzing Information
- Curiosity and Imagination
Partnership for 21st Century Skills:
...knowledge and expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.
1. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
2. Learning and Innovation Skills
- Creativity and Innovation
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Communication and Collaboration
3. Information, Media and Technology Skills
- Information Literacy
- Media Literacy
- ICT Literacy
4. Life and Career Skills
Questions about the skills lists above:
1. What do you see in common between these lists of skills?
2. Are we helping students learn these skills today in our schools?
3. Do we as educators have full competency in all of these skills? How would each of us rate ourselves on each of these skills?
Chapter 4: When and Where
St. Francis Xavier Community School
Classroom 2.0 Wiki Resources Provides an overview of wikis in education as well as links to many helpful resources and examples.
Moving Forward Wiki Provides list of education-related wikis including some school wiki sites.
Potential uses:
- School Website
- School Improvement Plan
- Professional Development Plan
- Technology Plan
- Department Collaboration wiki
- lesson planning
- curriculum planning
- Faculty Handbooks
- Student/Parent Handbooks
- PTA Website
- Professional Development planning, documentation, archive
- Meeting Agendas & Notes (agenda development, agenda posting, note-taking and archiving)
- Committees
- Classroom Instruction Handbook
- Student Leadership
- Wiki instead of PowerPoint (and handouts) for professional development
- Wiki instead of chart paper for meetings & workshops
- Wiki for shared note-taking at conferences
- Event planning
- Document business processes
- Capture pedagogical knowledge of veteran teachers
- New Teacher Induction wiki (for knowledge sharing and collaborative learning)
- Data Inventories
- Instructional Initiatives Inventories
Chapter 5: How - Making it Work in Your Organization
The model above shows the average distribution of technology adoption in any given population of people. The color-coding above represents the division of this distribution into three "tiers" of people that we can focus on when we are coaching or introducing new tools & concepts.
Tier 1 - Early Adopters & Innovators
- Need support & room to “play” - let these people grow your wiki in a grassroots manner.
Tier 2 - Early & Late Majority
- Mean well and understand need, but feel overwhelmed, overworked, and no time to learn - need support, safe environment. Mentoring from Tier 1 people will greatly increase the use of wiki by these Tier 2 folks.
Tier 3 - Laggards
- Rarely understand need, feel no need to learn, may never adopt. Be persistent with these folks, but also understand that they may remain reluctant.
Chapter 6: Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations
Appendix
Glossary
Recommended Reading & Resources
Wiki Hosting & Software
Ad-Free Wikis for Educators from WetPaint
Free Open Source Software Package for Wikis from MediaWiki
Books
"Wikified Schools" (Stephanie Sandifer)
“Wikipatterns” (Stewart Mader)
“Using Wiki in Education” (Stewart Mader)
"Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” (Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams)
"Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” (Clay Shirky)
Books on Related Topics
“Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms” (Will Richardson)
Using Technology With Classroom Instruction That Works
Classroom Blogging: 2nd Edition (David Warlick)
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools (Gwen Solomon, Lynne Schrum)
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
