Reflection on Mobile Phone Wiki.

I feel the Mobile Phones wiki forum was a good example of Constructivism in that it was a collaboration of different perspectives. The use of the Six Thinking Hats allowed students to take apart the issue of the use of iPhones in the classroom and explore different aspects of this. The wiki forum then allowed students to see varying points of view, internalise new ideas and develop their own opinion. If you look at the forum as a network of perceptions and ideas on iPhones in the classroom, then you could assess that connectivism has also been an influential learning theory in the planning of this exercise. In this aspect the outside thinking net would be the wiki site, enabling students to learn more than their current level of knowledge on the issue of iPhones being used within a classroom through peer learning. The benefits of this forum were, the Six Thinking Hats learning strategy allowing students to consider the issue of iPhones in the classroom in several different dimensions which encouraged higher thinking skills, and cooperative learning where the learning environment allowed everyone to learn from everyone else which in turn maximised the learning opportunities of all students. My personal learning journey through this exercise was very connective as I had to first draw from several networks, colleagues, internet and the forum itself, to find out what I could about the uses of an iPhone other than texting and calling. I was not able to post a point of view in the varied levels of perception, six thinking hats, without understanding and knowing what an iPhone could do. Once I acquired this information and knew more about the devise I could then post my point of view to the wiki site.