Gabriel's+Summaries

Summary 1 - **"WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING?" ** by Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean T. MacGrego

Collaborative work is a new method that focus on students helping each other, correcting their works and exchanging information. Different from the regular method of teaching, where the focus is in the professor, the Collaborative Work focus on the students, so they can share their opinions and knowledge naturally. Besides the academic improvement, the Collaborative Work also helps in the social and civic education, once it improves the sense of teamwork, problem-solving and commitment. Using this methods the teacher can help his students to grown by their own, becoming independent by using easy materials such as their discussions, lectures, etc.  FIXED VERSION   Collaborative work is a new method that focuses on students helping each other, correcting each other's works and exchanging information. Different from the <range type="comment" id="316765">regular method of teaching, where the focus is on the professor, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: line-through;">the Collaborative Work focus<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">es on the students, so they can share their opinions and knowledge naturally. Besides <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: line-through;">the academic improvement, such as <range type="comment" id="229061">more knowledge, easier way to learn and write <range type="comment" id="947038">; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: line-through;">the Collaborative Work also helps <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: line-through;">in the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">with social and civic education, <range type="comment" id="923841">once it improves the sense of teamwork, problem-solving skills and commitment. <range type="comment" id="861547">Using this method allows <range type="comment" id="701334">the teacher to help his students to grow<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: line-through;">n by <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">on their own, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">and becom<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">e <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: line-through;">ing independent by using easily accessible materials such as their discussions<range type="comment" id="773422">, lectures, etc.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summary 2 - **"W** **IKI AS A DIGITAL TOOL"** by Kevin R. Parker and Joseph T. Chao

<range type="comment" id="807845">Although the wiki was introduced more than ten years ago, <range type="comment" id="937726">its use is relatively new. Higher education has only recently begun to explore the potential educational value of wikis as a means to promote deeper learning and integration of learning experiences from both inside the classroom and out. Duffy and Bruns (2006) list several possible educational uses of wikis: • Students can use a wiki to develop research projects, with the wiki serving as ongoing documentation of their work. • Students can add summaries of their thoughts from the prescribed readings, building a collaborative annotated bibliography on a wiki. • A wiki can be used for publishing course resources like syllabi and handouts, and students can edit and comment on these directly for all to see. • Teachers can use wikis as a knowledge base, enabling them to share reflections and thoughts regarding teaching practices, and allowing for versioning and documentation. • Wikis can be used to map concepts. They are useful for brainstorming, and editing a given wiki topic can produce a linked network of resources. • A wiki can be used as a presentation tool in place of conventional software, and students are able to directly comment on and revise the presentation content. Those possibilities makes the students comfortable with digital tools in their learn and also prepare them to make innovative uses of collaborative software tools<range type="comment" id="696091">.

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Even though the wiki was introduced more than ten years ago, its use is relatively new. Higher education has only recently begun to explore the potential educational value of wikis as a means to <range type="comment" id="715150">promote deeper learning and integration of learning experiences from both inside the classroom and out. Duffy and Bruns (2006) list several possible educational uses of wikis: <range type="comment" id="131693">• Students can use a wiki to develop research projects, with the wiki serving as ongoing documentation of their work. • Students can add summaries of their thoughts from the prescribed readings, building a collaborative annotated bibliography on a wiki. • A wiki can be used for publishing course resources like syllabi and handouts, and students can edit and comment on these directly for all to see. • Teachers can use wikis as a knowledge base, enabling them to share reflections and thoughts regarding teaching practices, and allowing for versioning and documentation. • Wikis can be used to map concepts. They are useful for brainstorming, and editing a given wiki topic can produce a linked network of resources. • A wiki can be used as a presentation tool in place of conventional software, and students are able to directly comment on and revise the presentation content. <range type="comment" id="821369">Those possibilities <range type="comment" id="214884">makes the students comfortable with digital tools in their learn and also prepare s them to make innovative use s of collaborative software tool s. Wiki is beginning to fill some gaps that were missing when <range type="comment" id="112648">we talk about digital tools to share work.