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Monday, June 16, 2008
Wikitexts: Learning Better by Writing the Book - Dave Fontaine, Tech News World
Educational technology has largely kept up with changing times, but one thing that hasn't evolved much is the textbook. They're still made up of printed pages -- lots of them -- and usually out of date by the time they're published. Educators are discovering now that collaboratively written wikitexts could be the answer. The wikitext has the potential to become an integrating force that merges Web 2.0 tools for the betterment of education. By embedding audio, video, interactive tutorials, simulations and edu-games, the students will have almost limitless depth on curriculum topics. Imagine if textbooks were alive ... living, changing, evolving and improving ... never out-of-date; a textbook that would give students images, videos and interactive tutorials about a subject, a vocabulary word, or a topic; a digital textbook that would be student-driven, a model for differentiated learning, and geared toward helping all students learn through visualization, interaction and simulation. In the age of Web 2.0, all this and much more is possible. It's all at our students' fingertips with just a click of a button. Welcome to the "Age of the Wikitext!"
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