Wikis - EDED20491 Week 2 Post #3

Engagement Activity 3: Working in a Wiki

This (essential) activity asks youto participate in the mobile phones wiki, using a thinking routine called de Bono's Six Thinking Hats. This is a very useful routine for both individual and group work that scaffolds a way to examine a range of perspectives on a contentious issue. Each colour hat represents a different perspective. By gathering the ideas of a group of people within the wiki, you are presented with a huge set of perspectives that is capable of informing your decision-making and judgment in the construction of a balanced argument. Terry Anderson, in his keynote address to the DEHub Summit in Sydney, 2011, maintained that without a range of perspectives, analysis was neither feasible nor robust. When examined, this activity is about analysis and evaluation. And if you were asked to combine all of the perspectives to make a decision, you are engaging in a synthesis of information. Right at the top of Bloom's Taxonomy. This activity would normally be followed in a classroom by a sorting and filtering process. Perhaps you could allocate a colour hat to a small group of students, and ask them to work in a new wiki page, prioritising the ideas, removing duplicates, until they come up with the top five ideas from this perspective. What you will have by the end of this activity is a body of student-generated ideas based upon which you would be able to design further learning. A link to this wiki, hosted by Wikispaces, may be found within the top block on the FAHE11001 Moodle home page. or at http://fahe11001-3-11.wikispaces.com/Home 

This activity required EDED20491 students to go to the class Wikispace to complete an activity reflecting on the use of mobile telephones in the classroom. This blogpost will depict the activity. The following blogpost will reflect on this activity.

Because my surname starts with 'L' I was assigned to Group 2 Mobile Phones

This was the task:

Mobile Phones - should they be used in the classroom?

Add your thoughts to this wiki, reflecting on mobile phones in education.You are welcome to put on and take off a new colour hat as your reflect on different issues and perspectives!

De Bono's Hats

If you are unfamiliar with de Bono's six thinking hats, visit Kurwongbah State School's diverse resources on the topic (http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Hats/hats.htm). Then edit the table provided as scaffolding, add your ideas, opinions, and where possible your research. How will a collation of diverse perspectives from 19 different people inform your thinking? How could you use this in your classroom?

The link to De Bono's six thinking hats didn't work so had to find a working link myself using Google to brush up on this conceptual framework.
De Bono's Thinking System