Wiki for Collaborative Learning

Wiki

Wiki is "a website that contains pages that can be easily created and edited by multiple users"(Kelly, 2010). The several features of Wiki makes it a great tool for Collaborative Learning which is one of the 20 Century Skills. 

Watch is a feature which constantly inform students the changes which made by the other members. The feature eliminates the wasted time to access the page repeatedly to figure out what, if anything, has been changed.(Kelly, 2010)

History feature show editors when and who made the change. It allows users  to revert to a previous version when someone accidentally deletes something on a page. History features encourage students to participate, because the other members and the teacher will be able to see who contributed.(Kelly, 2010)

Wiki in Plain English

(Smart Media Agency, 2012)

How Wiki is Used in Kindergarten?

One example of wiki in kindergarten is Progressive Story which is a project that "4 classes would collaborate virtually to create a story." Students in each classroom added story to their assigned section. "As each subsequent class added their section the story grew and took many interesting twists and turns. " Because of the wiki's feature that allows multiple author to edit at the same time, several kindergarten classroom succeeded in creating a story. The story made by collaborative work  by 4 kindergarten classes is Here (Sheridan, 2012). 

Does Collaboration Occur With The Support of Wiki?

Allsop investigates the visible forms of collaboration when children are learning with Wikis. Based upon the research findings, "it can be suggested that children are collaborative when learning with the support of wikis. Therefore, wikis could be seen as an effective tool to support collaborative learning and knowledge sharing in education and facilitates group learning where students can learn and share knowledge. Various type of behavior associated with collaboration, were observed when the children were helping each other with their tasks" (Allsop, 2011, 136).  

References 

Allsop Yasemin. (2011). Does Collaboration Occur when Children Are Learning with the Support of a Wiki? Retrieved September 30, 2016 from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ946618.pdf.

Kelly Rob. (2010). Using Wikis for Collaborative Learning. Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Retrieved September 30, 2016 from http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/using-wikis-for-collaborative-learning/

Sheridan Benjamin J.  (2012). Exploring Digital Media in Education. Retrieved September 30, 2016 from http://www.coetail.com/bsheridan/2012/03/22/kindergarten-students-in-indonesia-and-japan-leverage-technology-to-collaboratively-write-story/

Smart Media Agency. (2012). Wikis in Plain English. Retrieved September 30, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0WQUrX-jBw