I’ve ponder this post by you for a few days now and while I share your passion, I keep drawing back upon your comment that “It is how they want to learn, it is their language, and by allowing them to use technology we actually engage them in the learning process. We allow them to use their tools to learn.”

My concern is that many, including myself, make these assumptions about ALL students. Honestly, do all students want to learn this way? Do all students speak this language that we discuss?

A part of me thinks we want to believe this because we speak the language, we want to learn this way, and we love the tools. Yes, there are students that might feel the same but I don’t think it is all or even the masses.

While most students want to be engaged, I don’t think technology as ed techs describe it is what they all look to for such engagement.

Our district is using both Wikispaces and PBWiki. We are struggling with the fact that with PBWiki only one student at a time can edit the page. I understand that this makes sense so that they don’t overwrite each other. Wikispaces has created a warning that pops up and tells you who else is editing and gives you a choice of overwriting what they are writing or appending yours to the page. This sounds cool, but when we (teachers) tried it in a group we kept overwriting each other and it was very confusing. Any tips? Maybe the teachers you work with could answer this one.

Janice