Using Wiki in Education, the book, is now available as a downloadable PDF and Paperback at Lulu.com!

The PDF is available for $19, the same price as online access at Wikiineducation.com, and now there’s an all new option:

Paperback
Take it with you, keep it on your desk next to Wikipatterns, or give it to a friend. Whether you’re using a wiki in your teaching, research, committee work, curriculum planning, or writing a grant proposal, Using Wiki in Education offers advice and examples for making the most of your wiki use. The paperback is available for $24.95.

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Andrea Foster writes on the Wired Campus Blog that University of Texas at Dallas professor David Parry encourages his students to use Wikipedia:

“Like it or not, the networked digital archive changes our basis of knowledge,” Mr. Parry writes “and training people for the future is about training them for this shift.”

Parry’s comments come from an article he published in Science Progress, in which he argues that banning Wikipedia isn’t just silly, it’s actually irresponsible.

It is irresponsible for educational institutions not to teach new knowledge technologies…Wikipedia, or more generally the networked archival structure it represents, alters the way in which we create, share, and record knowledge, and thus has rather significant effects on how we approach education across all disciplines, and specifically in technology and science.

Students and teachers alike must understand how systems of knowledge creation and archivization are changing. Encyclopedias are no longer static collections of facts and figures; they are living entities, and the new software changes the rules of expertise. [Read more]

“A survey of the attitudes of 13 to 17 year olds, commissioned by the British IT firm Logicalis, reveals 81 per cent have already thought about their work/life balance, while more than half (55%) expect to use instant messaging in the workplace to communicate with colleagues. Many also expect to be able to continue using other web 2.0 technologies they’ve grown up with – such as wikis, social networks & blogs.” [Read more]