Sunday, November 11, 2007

A Secret

You could Wiki your way through this course.

Easy!

For example, why read a book when you could do this?

RH

Did Bird send you? STOP! You are not required to proceed.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks sailor, but how could we really use Wiki to get all the info we needed...there are areas of the chapter that are left untouched...

Anonymous said...

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/legislative/markup/
isn't half bad either

JCF said...

unstoppable,
. . . untouched by Wiki? True. But one could find those areas elsewhere online easily enough, as suggested by philistine. The only real problem, as far as I can tell, is having students who don't have easy access to computers and the Internet.

Anonymous said...

the issues with lack of internet availability, and the supplementary nature of the books just propel the need for another means of learning.
Namely a non-tangible resource,

oh man. imagine. we wouldn't have to buy and sell things to the school, and students, they could use the resources already available to them and share with people.

If we bring together what we learn on a daily basis, nobody is so thoroughly disadvantaged.

our Captain makes a good point

The students who don't have internet, have no access to information as readily

and our media center
It has neither relevant literature, or appropriate technology, and not enough time or assistance for a student to use either advantageously.

instead of leaving students to fend for themselves, it would be better that we learn in class the way we would independently. It can be done so everybody wins.

Anonymous said...

as a note,

I'd rather we use people like silber, and commentators like vidal, and actual records, videos and documents, than that so beloved wiki.
That's trusting the research to others, rather than having to do a half step more of investigating

wiki is to research what flashcards are to mathematics

pancake said...

philistine,
i think you make a good point about how the media center isn't nearly as adequate as we'd like it to be both for people who like to do homework in the ten minutes before school starts or for students who don't have internet. However, I would like to say that although I appreciate your opinion and recognize the advantages of how much better school would be without the need to raise money to buy books and by learning from the internet instead, I personally would much rather have the class's context put all together in a book, than having to look in scattered areas from the internet. I realize that this may reduce the amount of variety we will be subject to, but I also believe that it would be much easier to learn with school books.

pancake said...

and I don't understand your analogy.