Communication and Collaboration:

The wiki at its core is a tool that enables and enhances the ability to communicate and collaborate. Communication and collaboration have been identified as being very important in modern education as collaboration allows for students to scaffold each other’s learning and help one another develop their knowledge and world view. Communication is also very important as it allows for the sharing of ideas. Research has shown that learning where students work collaboratively allows them to engage in authentic, deeper learning. This communication and collaboration now fits within the Constructivist paradigm and is built off the work of Vygotsky, who hypothesized that student learning could be enhanced when they were scaffolded either by a peer or teacher.