This is my Twitter conversation I had with my friend Gabriela Sellart about the resistance from students to using new Learning 2.0 tools.
Gabriela asked:
gsellart: how do you convince your students to write directly on the wiki, instead of copying/pasting from word?about 2 hours ago from TwitterFox
emapey2: @gsellart They want to have a copy and backup. They feel their work can be lost
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gsellart: @emapey2 I don’t think it’s that, I think it’s a habit. You say write, they think Word.
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emapey2: @gsellart I agree also. People don’t want change. Topic of MY presentation at Learntrends
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gsellart: @emapey2 interesting topic. Lots to think about that.
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emapey2: @gsellart Let them use the tools they like and are already using
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emapey2: @gsellart Such as lessons, alerts and feeds delivered by email
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emapey2: @gsellart Gabriela I don’t like email myself, too much spam but people use it all the time.
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gsellart: @emapey2 yes, of course, I let them use the tools they want to, but i miss the process, and they miss it too
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emapey2: @gsellart At Learntrends my presentation was Selling E-learning in your Organization, Eduardo Peirano. Use the tools they value more
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emapey2: @gsellart It ts not what I like. It’s just a fact
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emapey2: @gsellart By the way I don’t like wikis. I prefer to use Forums for collaborative learning
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gsellart: @emapey2 you can use the discussion pages as a sort of forum.
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emapey2: @gsellart I think so. I have never used a wiki. for collaborative learning. I think I don’t need that tool
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emapey2: @gsellart by the way I also hate Word. Whenever possible I write and save .txt files
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emapey2: @gsellart Gabriela, we need to think how to “sell” these new tools in our organization
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This converstion was fun! For both of us our native language is Spanish but here we are having a Twitter discussion in English.
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I also had a FB conversation:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=602418186&v=feed&story_fbid=74705319834
My answer there:
I wish they used Word to check spelling! They don’t. I need the spell check, too. I type terribly. My browser has a spell check, I don’t know if it’s in the google toolbar or what.
The thing is, they are secondary school students. They don’t edit. They just write and don’t even proof read once. If they did that on the wiki, write and edit and reedit, they could go back, compare. I know you can learn a lot about your own way of writing when you look at the whole process.
So, I don’t think they use Word because of the good tools it has (that would be a great reason to use it), I think they use it because that’s the only editor they are taught how to use at school.
Gabriela, I add my twitter conversations to my blog for several reasons:
- add content to my blog
- save my twitter conversations
- feature friends who had direct conversations with me
I am a Twitter user who appreciates having conversations with my network contacts