Wikis in Education
Peter Kemp @peterejkemp
Open Source Educational Resources
(many of them!)
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A new model
Open Source
Educational Resources
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OER
An Old Proverb
“Give a person a fish and they will eat for one day.”
“Give a person a fishing rod and they will feed themselves for a life time”
“Organise a farming cooperative and it will feed the whole village for generations”
An OER Proverb
“Give a teacher a resource and they will teacher for one day.”
“Give a teacher powerpoint and they will teach for a life time”
“Organise a collaborative resource making environment and the education system will cater for generations”
34 questions
6 languages
750 edits
Some dodgy maths
600,000 students in Year 10
Nearly all of them learn Pythagoras’ theorem
Pythagoras died in 495 BC
Text books cost about £10 each
Each student has a maths text book
600,000 * £10 = £6 million
This isn’t just a computing issue
Today
how to hack (the page!)
Computational Thinking Links DPAA
How to make independent learners / teaching at home
FUN! Practical
No assessment link
Differentiated low floor high ceiling
Teachers (later?)
Badges?
What content do we want in our KS3 book? (Pick one of the headings)
Basic editing
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/KS3_Computing
In your group, create/edit a page, save changes, navigate
If you register on wikipedia/wikibooks you’ll be able to:
In groups, write down:
Artists will try and work cross group
Try not to edit the same page at the same time
Artists
Image rules: vector, license, colours, gender neutral?
Does something exist on wikicommons that you can borrow?
Could I use a template for that?
CSS hackers
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:Webpage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_templates
Suggested Templates on the helpsheet, are there any more?
Review
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#include - social mobility
Peter Kemp
Phil
What the students think
"research from science education may suggest that careers from science, such as in computing or technology, are considered to have high economic returns"
Wong 2015
Curriculum changes
a new emphasis on the teaching of computer science, not only diverts the purpose of education and educational technology further toward the needs of industry but may also lead to computer science being constructed as an elitist and selective subject
Rudd 2014
Qualifications
The A-Level
http://www.jcq.org.uk/examination-results/a-levels
| Male | Female | ||
2003 | 8856 | 87.3% | 1290 | 12.7% |
2004 | 7456 | 87.8% | 1032 | 12.2% |
2005 | 6426 | 88.7% | 816 | 11.3% |
2006 | 5629 | 90.3% | 604 | 9.7% |
2007 | 5035 | 89.8% | 575 | 10.2% |
2008 | 4588 | 90.5% | 480 | 9.5% |
2009 | 4256 | 90.4% | 454 | 9.6% |
2010 | 3704 | 91.1% | 361 | 8.9% |
2011 | 3700 | 92.5% | 302 | 7.5% |
2012 | 3512 | 92.2% | 297 | 7.8% |
2013 | 3513 | 93.5% | 245 | 6.5% |
2014 | 3857 | 92.5% | 314 | 7.5% |
Who are these students?
The GCSE
| 2013 | 2014 |
Male | 3640 | 14205 |
| 85.59% | 84.69% |
Female | 613 | 2568 |
| 14.41% | 15.31% |
Total | 4253 | 16773 |
http://www.jcq.org.uk/examination-results/gcses
DfE 2014
Table 10b: GCSE attempts in selected subjects of pupils at the end of key stage 4 by admission basis (percentage) | | ||
| Comprehensive schools | Selective schools | Secondary Moderns |
Any Subject | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| | | |
Physics | 20 | 61 | 13 |
Chemistry | 20 | 61 | 13 |
Biological Sciences | 21 | 62 | 14 |
Computer Science | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Latin | 0 | 6 | x |
Some worrying conversations...
“Computing is too hard for my sort of students”
“We require a level 5 [SATS] or above in Mathematics”
“It is a course for our Gifted and Talented”
Resources
Free and Open Source
The lie of the library
Making digital makers
Access to mentors was another factor that significantly increased the likelihood that a young person would progress in their field.
All children/young people [in the study] needed at least one ‘support system’ – family, school, extra-curricular – in order to progress. Those without the support of middle-class families, for example, were highly reliant on engaged teachers, a resource that of course is not available to everyone.
Sefton-Green & Brown 2014
Busy houses
Role models
Role Models
Tommy Flowers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
A bigger problem
Teacher recruitment
Making digital makers
Access to mentors was another factor that significantly increased the likelihood that a young person would progress in their field.
All children/young people [in the study] needed at least one ‘support system’ – family, school, extra-curricular – in order to progress. Those without the support of middle-class families, for example, were highly reliant on engaged teachers, a resource that of course is not available to everyone.
Sefton-Green & Brown 2014