Wikis

I personally like Wikis, i use it a lot when i have to write papers and i have to research people, places, or things. I has helped me a lot in learning new things and i understand things easier because it gets right to the point. I would use it in my classroom because the website is opened to anything you want to look up. It can also help in students with study guides, students staying in contact with each other, and group projects.

I am not sure if it would be better or just a different way to do it. I think there is benefits to traditional instruction as well as using learning communities. I think you still need the face to face instruction with the technology to compliment it. Students still need to interact with one another and be able to do papers and things by hand. The internet has become the easy way to find the information you need for different projects, but I think students still need to be able to find things in books, magazines, and newspapers.You would have to do a study using one classroom that only uses only traditional instruction and one that only uses learning communities to learn. After the study then you can compare the results to find out which one works better. I think the best results will be using a combination of both types of instruction