Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom

As Prensky (2001) observes, Our students have changed radically. Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach (1). Prensky sees today's students as digital natives while most of today's teachers remain digital immigrants. In particular, today's educators are acculturated to a print paradigm while students are increasingly products of a digitally-based secondary-oral paradigm. Happily for educators,...