#7b Let's talk about wikis in the classroom.

My Response: The site below listed specific ways to use wikis in the K-12 classrooms: science fair projects, collaborative textbooks, student portfolios, collaborations between teachers, literature circles (love this one), etc. If your interested check out the site: http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Wiki in a K-12 classroom.

Some concerns about wikis is that they may be unreliable because of the editing access. My response: While it is true that the information can be changed, I think we forget that textbooks and certainly journal articles do the same in print all the time. Yet we rarely critique the validity of those. I suppose if wikis allow people to indiscriminately change material without accountability that could be more of a problem. But I think we do it more often than we realize it with printed material as well...