Problem Scenario wiki

Despite Jane having much experience teaching, her experience with technology is not on par. Since technology such as wiki has barely starting when she became a teacher. Now Jane is overwhelmed herself because she does not know how she can help the students do the equal amount of work. I think what Jane is missing is that she needs to monitor the groups more frequently. The way you can do this, is by always asking questions such as how things are going, and what problems have they come up in the middle of the lesson, as well as create a discussion to see how the other groups are doing. This will help because the students will se how the other groups are doing, and will encourage them to do better. I think they need to feel a certain level of competition so they can get things done. Also one thing that isn’t mentioned but is rather important is the group sizes. I think that using Wiki sites at 6^th grade is too much for 12-year-old students. I think that the reason they are having issues is that some students feel comfortable using wiki and the others don’t. This would explain how she found only one student working on wiki and the rest of the group was not making any cooperation.  If wiki is to be used in this grade level, the instructor needs to lead the classroom, as well as make the groups with 2 people only. This will ensure that the students stay focused and are less pressured by other students in the group. I think that the teacher will be able to instruct the students if they are in a group of two. Using wiki can help the teacher understand how well the class is going. I think that it is amazing how she realized the classroom groups were not at the same level, and that how different each group was working. The issue is now to fine tune where the students are doing wrong and maybe by simply changing up the teams you can have better results. I think that despite my opinion that Wiki being too much for a sixth grade class, I think that good results can still come from it. The children in my opinion are doing whatever they please because the instructor is not engaging with the students as much as it is needed. The students need to see the instructor approach the students so that they can see where they are doing right and wrong.  I don’t think the teacher should feel disappointed on her findings, she simply should gather the findings and work into making improvements from there. Being a sixth grade class she should be very proud that even some of the students are able to use wiki, now what I would do is have those that know how to use it work with the students that struggled, and those that made the presentation look “pretty” integrate them in the groups that were accurate so they could make the wiki presentations look professional.