Lawlor, J. (2009-2010). Let the kids do the work. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(6), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/LLIssues/Volume37200920...
The author of this article is an English teacher who had a great experience with wiki. He had learned it from a workshop and decided to apply his knowledge in the classroom. The results were amazing and transformed his entire class into students eager to participate in classroom discussion over the Internet. The first time he asked his students to answer an essay question, he was overwhelmed with the responses that he received. All the students seemed to have an input and feed backs on each others' answers. He realized that there was a great amount of enthusiasm that was created among his students by simply posting their comments and feed backs. The teacher also realized how the new way of posting their comments on wiki motivated shy students to participate and have a voice.
Furthermore, the author learned so much from his students who encouraged him to improve his wiki, they even took upon themselves the task of improving the way it looked.
In the end, the author concluded that sometimes it takes a small unexpected step to change the course of learning and make it more enjoyable. In his case that was made possible through technology.
What would you do with students that don't have Internet access at home?
In this case, I would make sure that the student has as much access to the classroom computer as possible I might also encourage them to hook up with few of their peers who have a computer at home.
Will I enjoy learning from my students as much as they learn from me?
I truly believe so. In fact I would hope that I will always have few students in my classroom who will be very excited about technology and will always inspire me to use it in my classroom.
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