Reflection Task 1: Mobile Phone Wiki / de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats

Reflection Task 1:


Wiki's are a good source of information as it is a website or database that is developed collaboratively by a collective of users. I found that completing this wiki gave me as much information as I equally contributed to it. Whilst completing the wiki based on "the use of mobile phone's in educational settings" I found that there was much to be learnt from the existing answers that other students have been contributing to the wiki. The use of de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is a very good system to get users to effectively think about their replies/answers to each 'hat'.

The drawbacks of participating in a wiki like this are the fact that it is unable to be edited whilst another user is accessing the same wiki. I found that my answers had been deleted the day after I had contributed them due to the fact that either: another user was also editing the wiki as I was, or another user wrote their answers/replies over mine.

The unsafe side to this concept is the idea of students meddling with the information in an inefficient and unproductive manner.

Although there are some drawbacks, being able to edit a wiki can be a useful perk, for example, when correcting or expanding on existing information. Also, I discovered many aspects of mobile phone use at school which I had not previously considered before reading through other user's answers on the wiki.

If a wiki was developed for educational purposes there would be a magnitude of benefits. Classes could access information online and take or give ideas or answers to their class discussions. It is also very useful for teachers as it is a very advantageous strategy to incorporate into teaching.