Wikis

Wikis are a collaborative web page that can be edited by several students. They are a great vehicle for incorporating 21st century skills into the classroom. Wikis can be used in many ways including for sustained, on task discussions online. Wikis have a terrific track changes capability and personal responsibility is a 21st century skill. A 21st century learning environment emphasizes online citizenship and etiquette. Developing a rubric or contract with the students for online behavioral expectations on the wiki is a good way of teaching this 21st century skill. Connecting the online expectations to responsible citizen and acceptable behaviors in the physical world is also a good teaching strategy.

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[|Wikis in the classroom]

[|50 Ways to Use a Wiki for a More Collaborate and Interactive Classroom]

[|Wiki in a K-12 classroom]

[|How we use wikis in a class]

[|Ten simple strategies for re-engaging students]

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[|How to edit a Wiki: Part 1].

[|Intro To Class Wiki with Wikispaces 1]

Here are just a few of the relevant standards that apply to the above examples:
 * College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing **

// Text Types and Purposes‡ // // Production and Distribution of Writing //
 * 1.** Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * 4.** Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 * 5.** Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
 * 6.** Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.