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[|Collaborative Learning the Wiki Way]

This site had information discussing a way to get students to read materials that they were assigned to do and to do it in a meaningful manner. They found that assigning students to post their findings on Web 2.0 tools such as Wiki gave the students much more of a motivation to do the assignment and to go farther in the assignment to post their information found on their Wiki. MOtivation is the key component to success. If students aren't motivated to learn, they aren't going to get anything out of it. This goes the same for my second graders. If we aren't doing a motivating activity, fewer students will be engaged and getting the proper information out of what is being taught. Like always with technology, they did come across some problem with technology but did find that reading material and using a wiki space created a meaningful learning. I would agree with this. I do like the Wiki and think it's an excellent tool to get information across and making sure that students are reading the assigned materials as in this study I read.