Summary: Learning material that is accessible and manipulable in multiple ways allows individuals to use and acquire material in ways that work with each person's "learning strategy". The same content can be used quite differently if transferred from a linear paper form to an electronic wiki-ized form; there are multiple entry points and multiple workable forms of learning-related interaction.

I have no doubt that, in the right hands, the wiki-ized version will allow more learning and teaching to take place.

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Will Richardson gives us an analysis of a textbook's deficiencies. (As usual brackets and emboldening are my devices for giving editorial emphasis).

Think about textbooks, for instance. I can't begin to guess the amount of money we spend on texts at my school but I'm sure it's a staggering amount. It's also a staggering waste. Here's what you can do with a text book: read it. You can also lose it, rip the pages out, deface the cover, and generally abuse it until it has to be replaced. But as far as a delivery vehicle for content goes, you can basically only consume it by reading it.

Here's what you can't do with a textbook:

1. You can't annotate it. How strange is it that students can't add their own reflections or thoughts or reactions, that they have to do that in a different space?
2. You can't search it.
3. You can't link it to other relevant ideas or concepts in any organized way.
4. You can't access it if it's not in your posession.
5. You can't copy out important information and paste it with other important information.
6. You can't share it in any meaningful way.
7. You can't have the most up to date information about the topic.
8. You can't edit it.

Think of how much more interactivity we have with digital content, how much more power we have to make meaning of that content through connecting ideas and people with it.

[... the same material if put online in wiki form would allow students to go online] and [not only] consume the content [by reading the text material in original sequence] but also [by] interacting with it. [Argue with it] . Annotate it with their own examples and experiences. Be able to access it from home with their parents and experience it together.

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