Interview

Given the current scenario presented to me, I have created a wiki in about fifteen minutes. To show the teacher who is asking the question, it would not be difficult at all. What takes the longest other than actually writing your information or doing research, is setting up the account. When your account is all set up, the only thing left to do is make sure that you have a substantial and impartial post with enough content and you are, as Taco Bell would say, Good to Go. Check it out here.


Ah, but why a wiki instead of a webpage or podcast? Because Friedman says that we all need to become collaborators to stay relevant in the upcoming flat world. Because Richardson shows us how easy and powerful the wiki can be. The fact that a teacher can challenge their students to work together to become the best students that they can be and to encourage a sense of competitiveness in their students to create the best wiki in the class is solid motivation to help students achieve, especially who feel that school is rather dull. Wikis allow our students to work together to make their world a better and better informed place to live and to keep up a lifetime of learning; one that surpasses primary and secondary school. Not only can a student create a wiki, but they have the power to edit the posts of other people, if they find the information presented to be irrelevant, subjective, unfair or plain false. I think about the false death of Sinbad when this issue came to mind. Another good reason is that it forces students to write concisely and objectively about a topic that can easily turn into a strongly opinionated article.

To conclude, I chose a wiki because the collaboration factor that the wiki presents will be essential for our kids and students to master, because eventually (sooner than we think) people will start pooling their intellectual resources to make the entire world more enlightened. Also, wikis are simple enough as to where anyone to create and edit a post, as long as they have the correct information.