Teaching with Wikis: Toward a Networked Pedagogy |
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Authors: | Rebecca Wilson Lundin [Author Vitae] |
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Affiliation: | Department of English, Penn State University, 139 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802, United States |
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Abstract: | Computers and writing scholarship is increasingly turning towards the network as a potential pedagogical model, one in which writing is intimately connected to its social contexts. The use of wikis in first-year composition classes can support this networked pedagogy. More specifically, due to unique features such as editability and detailed page histories, wikis can challenge a number of traditional pedagogical assumptions about the teaching of writing. This article shows how wikis can challenge assumptions in four categories of interest to composition studies: new media composition, collaborative writing, critical interaction, and online authority. The analysis demonstrates that wikis, while not automatically revolutionary to composition pedagogy, hold significant potential to help facilitate pedagogical changes. |
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Keywords: | Wiki Network New media Collaboration Critical interaction Authority |
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