Dear Reader,
It is always taken for granted that managing a class is normal activity, which i think is an activity that the teacher must prepare and get acquainted with.
The tutor, made a group wiki in which each participant was expected to edit, by reorganizing the words, sentences, spelling, tables, and addition of content to make a meaningful document giving insights in how to manage the challenges of integrating technology in learning spaces.
Yet this is wiki space is another learning space, each member was able to do any kind of job. i was able to make some changes though it was not easy to track them because every one accessed and reorganized it just as i thought was reorganizing others.
It became too hard for me to know where to proceed from because translating someones opinion to the inquiry that the tutor had put was not easy. Each ones understanding of the concept could not relate easily.
I have learnt that the learners may not easily agree on issues given such a learning space. much as it may be correct that disagreement improves understanding, but it may be time consuming most especially if some student who has not made thorough research just jumps into the wiki to change everything.
I also observed that the comments could not be answered easily because each one tried to limit collaboration, and understanding to the original ways how they perceived.
I noted that the tutor MAY BE INTENTIONALLY left us and kept quiet which at the end each one quit the wiki with out any way forward made. Like i demonstrated in the Video, i learnt that if the teacher does not control the space, then it will not yield result.
I also observed that if the wiki space does not probe personal learning, some "copy and paste" appears which distorts the quality of the document.
Ahaa, i can now manage the wiki space, i am now able to trace the changes, i can now guide the learners on how to collaborate using the wiki space.
I will try as much as possible to learn much about how wiki space can be used adequately to make a good research paper for a group of learners.
I do not necessarily agree with you that the teacher needs to control the learning space. Control is a pedagogically restrictive word. In this lesson, and in fact on this course, the wiki is a student-driven tool and it has taken the Ugandan teachers a very long time to understand the true nature of collaboration in this way. It is very "uncontrolled" and the "control" or regulation must come from within the contributors. If each contributor had the attitude that their opinion is the only correct one and has the desire to control the other contributors then you really end up with no way forward. Each iteration of the wiki must be better than the previous even if it is never perfect.
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