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WikiSym 2008 Wiki For Kids What’s That? Is That Good? This is a result from OpenSpace “Wiki for kids: how good they can be? ”
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Follow-up slides about WikiSym 2008 OpenSpace session on "Wiki for kids, how good can it be"
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WikiSym 2008
Wiki For KidsWhat’s That? Is That Good?
This is a result from OpenSpace“Wiki for kids: how good they can be?”
WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
Let’s define “kids”Two groups by age:
• 4-8 years old
• and 8-12 years old.
Main differences are in:
• abilities to write and to read
• needs in social attention
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For young ones“Wiki” and “computer” itself are
mostly indistinguishable.
Wiki is a toy.
Tool for structuring individual behavour of a child.
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Carried Away
Such a pleasant dream for parents!
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While He Plays,
you can take some rest and do some “adult” things.
Such as drinking beer, yep.
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How to teach you child to
play with wiki?
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Childrens don’t know how to play games.
Children, growned by animals, don’t know how to play.
Playing games is a social skill.
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Play together!Use wiki as a context for
communication with your child.
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Visuals Instead Of Text
You are not expecting your kid to read all this stuff?
Erm, don’t expect him to write it, too.
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So, what is “wiki” here?
Wiki — is a place where
you and your child
can
create
together
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Drawing ToolsDraw together with your child: start from questions
like “what color should we use for puppy?”
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Mijn Naam Is Haas• “My name is Haas”
www.mijnnaamishaas.nl
• interactive narrative game, where kids helps hare on its journey
• can be used for learning vocabulary and usage of words
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Playing Togetheris better alongside of a single computer
at this age.
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Use metaphors from real world, not from word processor!
UniversalEdit
Button
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For 8+ years
• There is a plenty of games inside and outside the computer.
• Wiki is just another one game.
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Games With Wiki
• Can help to develop creativity
• Allow learning of working in group, how to:
• use and impove others’ products
• consider and use others’ opinions
• build a result-oriented communication
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Some Games You Can Play
• collaborative writing of a story around some key points of a plot
• photo quests and hyper cartoons
• fantasy dictionary creation
• wiki games as in: tinyurl.com/wiki-gaming
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So
• 3-8 yo — Wiki is a context for playful interaction with parents and other kids
• 8+ yo — Wiki becomes a sandbox for co-creation games
• Creativity and groupwork skills are key learning points in wiki-related activity
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WikiSym 2008: вики для детей
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Authors and contributors• Nikolay Yaremko
• Konstantin [email protected]
and other WikiSym participants
More WikiSym 2008 stories?http://wikisym2008.humanemagica.com
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