This week was spent on coming up with ideas for a wiki page which the students could create using research they conducted from online and the textbooks. My idea consisted of using both a 5th grade art textbook's pages on elements of art and an interactive website for understanding elements of art to create a wiki that tested students' understanding of the subject. I placed an image of a famous work of art (Edvard Munch's The Scream) and asked questions based on that work of art.
I believe activities like this one, of having the students create wikis with their own control or some control, could be beneficial and motivating for students. Wikis could be used for introductions to another activity or lesson because children know that they already have this background knowledge to apply and give them confidence. In the art classroom, the wikis can be used utilized toward applying art history or art terminology to an art project following. I approve of the idea of allowing students to collaborate for online research assignments because of their different backgrounds with technology. All in all, technology can either motivate or disappoint the class depending on the assigned activities or websites for research, so it is important for the teacher to evaluate the websites beforehand.
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