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Collective Intelligence in a classroom

What a beautiful idea for collaborative, group work, that allows for mountains of opinions and ideas to be considered in order to make one large pool of information. Truly a fabulous idea in the classroom.
Including this formulation of ideas and producing it as some sort of wiki only adds to the benefits.
Students start with lines of questioning, as they grow they are able to add to it, chaange previous ideas and all this is done as a class, where opinions and ideas can be debated. It certainly gives a sense of purpose for students as well if they think that the information they create for their wiki may someday be accessed by another student from the other side of the world and that it may help with them with their learning as well!
love it!

using blogs in education

my first response is to see the use of blogs in an arts environment. my shcooling days were spent being told to "reflect on your drama class, what have you learnt?" a question one soon grows tired of hearing. the task actually became quite challenging at times when there was nothing inspirational about the class to write about. what was nice about the task was when we could reflect on others work. who got to read this reflection? the teacher and no one else received the positive feedback other students wrote for each other nor did they receive any suggestions for thigns to try differently to achieve greater things. blogs become therefore, a very public and open communication tool to share on a wider level ones thoughts and feelings. not only do they allow for an individual to share their thoughts but how nice if a whole class of students were to agree with the posting that a student had done a delightful performance.
i truly beleive blogs open up a whole new place for students to explore and share, where they may not feel the security to do so in a standard classroom setting.

--> this is a very traditional sense of the use of blogs, basically utilising the system of a diary. however, they do allow for this diary to be made extremely public and i think this can have its benefits in certain areas and obvisouly, with certain rules or guidlines for use put in place by students and teachers.

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