Few days ago, we came across this cool article and decided to respond with few words on the importance of technology to learning and education.
Springnote has already witnessed many benefits that it has offred to many educational organizations and success as well. Here's the comment we left on the article. Of course, we're getting ready to write more on the power of wikis in education and go even deeper into the Hannae Elementary School case explained later in this blog!
Till then, have a great weekend, everyone!
Hi, Sara!
Thanks for the great post. I really enjoyed it. Gave a whole new scope of the Tech-learning area.
Just to add few cents to what you were saying, I work for a wiki service named Springnote (http://springnote.com/en). It's being used by many academic institutions in Korea, from elementary schools all the way up to graduate level research institutions, and it's truly creating a new form of academic collaboration in a postive way, which never existed before.
For example, at this one elementary school, every student is required to use Springnote for all their academic activities. What happens is they actually do all their homework within the wiki. Lots of assignments are group projects; but after school, students can't really get together because they all go home. So in the evening, they get together online, communicating through IM and finishing their homework in Springnote. That night, teachers grade assignments and leave comments in Springnote. The conversation about the assignments gets carried over to the next day when they actually get "physically" together in classrooms and talk throughout the day. And the same cycle repeats.
While much of this process includes a new form of "virtual" collaboration, I think it's just better suited for the growing digital generation, that are increasingly spending more time online and are just simply getting more accustomed to processing their thoughts that way. Of course, a wiki like Springnote can be useful across all learning settings, be it college or even corporate.
I've shared my thoughts more in the following:http://blog.springnote.com/pages/1718876
http://blog.springnote.com/pages/1635676
and this is the actual wiki page of the elementary school example I mentioned above. (Sorry its content is in Korean but many students learn to write their journals/diaries in English)
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