Some entities involved in this conversation are new to me. From this extreme newbie perspective, this conversation seems to be about "voting for the best, the most logical, the most streamlined" vs. having many different sorts, kinds and flavors of... curricula, connections, models, theories. Am I close?
Ever since wiki was invented, I've been wondering about this question, though, even if it only relates to this conversation through a tangent. So I am going to formulate it again. Wiki uses a "single idea, single space" metaphor, hardcoded by allowing one single page by each name. Names stand for ideas, so there will be the one and the only page about "constructivism" and "math" and "multiplication" in any wiki. This calls up all territorial mechanisms of controlling this seemingly limited "land" - and do these necessarily lead to wars? As Leigh said resignedly, in this thread, "Off to start an edit war in Wikipedia." In general, human groups need a healthy balance between convergence and divergence of ideas. It looks like wikis tend to promote convergence (either synergy-style, or survival-of-the-fittest style) rather than collections of multitudes of ideas. So, would wiki ed projects attract people who work in "the bestest single curriculum" direction? -- Cheers, MariaD I write, 'In the beginning was the Deed!' - Goethe, Faust naturalmath.com: a sketch of a social math site groups.google.com/group/naturalmath: a mailing list about math maker activities --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
