Follow-up slides about WikiSym 2008 OpenSpace session on "Wiki for kids, how good can it be"

1. 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?”

2. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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3. 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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4. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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5. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
Carried Away
Such a pleasant dream for
parents!
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6. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
While He Plays,
you can take some rest and do
some “adult” things.
Such as drinking beer, yep.
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7. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
How to teach
you child to
play with wiki?
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8. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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9. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
Play together!
Use wiki as a context for
communication with your child.
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10. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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11. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
So, what is “wiki” here?
Wiki — is a place
where
you and your child
can
create
together
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12. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
Drawing Tools
Draw together with your child: start from questions
like “what color should we use for puppy?”
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13. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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14. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
Playing Together
is better alongside of a single computer
at this age.
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15. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
Universal
Edit
Button
Use metaphors from real world,
not from word processor!
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16. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
For 8+ years
• There is a plenty
of games inside
and outside the
computer.
• Wiki is just
another one game.
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17. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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18. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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19. WikiSym 2008: Wiki For Kids
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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20. WikiSym 2008: вики для детей
Authors and contributors
• Nikolay Yaremko
makiwara@humanemagica.com
• Konstantin Kolomeetz
kolomeetz@yandex-team.ru
and other WikiSym participants
More WikiSym 2008 stories?
http://wikisym2008.humanemagica.com
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