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Needs Assessment of Application of PB Works in the Classroom Mini Course

Identify Problem

Technology is part of our students’ lives outside the classroom and should be part of their experience within the classroom.

However, integrating technology into the curriculum can be difficult without resources to help you balance content with technology.

Solution

The PB Works mini course will explore the pedagogy of cooperative learning in a wiki space and guide teachers in the creation of their own wiki space on PB Works.

In addition, it will provide a resource for multiple content areas in the integration of wiki technology as a complement to the curriculum.

Goals

Students will reflect on wiki page integration into their curriculum meeting the following objectives:

understand benefit of technology integration in 21^st century education
identify the benefit of wiki pages in cooperative learning
classify types of learners that will benefit from wiki collaboration
reflect on success of meeting content objectives in wiki examples
reflect on own content that could utilize a wiki

Students will create a PB Works wiki page meeting the following objectives:

create a wiki with a front page and one additional page containing images and links
create log-in names and passwords for 5 students to edit the wiki

Prerequisites

The intended participants for this course are teachers with little to no knowledge of wiki spaces.

This is an introductory course to expose participants to wiki spaces and the pedagogy of this cooperative learning environment.

Therefore, the prerequisites are as follows:

Essential:

Students must have the basic knowledge of computers including how to use a mouse, how to type, how to use word processing and how to browse the internet.
Students must know how to identify objectives.
Students must know how to analyze the affectiveness of a lesson at meeting the objectives.
Students must know the benefit of cooperative learning.
Students must know the different learning types.

Supportive:

Students positive attitude toward integrating technology into the classroom.
Students knowledge of the prevalence of technology in our world.
Students knowledge of wiki pages as a tool to bring technology into the classroom.
Students positive attitude toward technology integration will help them see wiki pages as a benefit.
Students knowledge of the types of learners in their classroom.
Students knowledge of areas of own curriculum that can be improved through cooperative learning.

Curriculum Map

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