On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Andrea Forte <andrea.forte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Often it's productive for learners to freely
explore wrong ideas in
detail, to develop their interpretations, etc. These kinds of issues
are precisely why I set up a student writing wiki separate from
Wikipedia, so that there would be freedom to ask students to write in
many different ways without bothering Wikipedians. In particular, I
really wanted them to be free to use original research and explore
possibilities. That's not to say that they don't eventually often
write material that is encyclopedic and appropriate for Wikipedia, but
the process is just different.
some wikis have incubators for formative work
again the challenge is that it is hard to collaborate if the purpose
is not explicit
sometimes that is hard if it is experimental