When thinking about the IRA standards and my wiki lesson, there are a couple of standards that

the lesson covers. One standard is standard 2.3 which states candidates use a wide range of texts (e.g.,
narrative, expository, and poetry) from traditional print, digital, and online resources. In the lesson
students will be using handouts, the wiki page, and online resources to create their own page on the
wiki. This will impact their knowledge in a positive way since these are 21
st
century skills that they need
to know which is what standard 4.2 is about. Finally, when thinking about the best configuration of
room for the lesson to be on is having laptops in the classroom for the groups to use. By thinking about
this covers standard 5.1.
This wiki lesson also covers a few of the ISTE standards as well. Students are creating a page on
the wiki which covers standard one which is about students using creativity and innovation. Students are
working in groups which requires them to communicate and collaborate with each other. This is what
ISTE standard two is all about, communication and collaboration. The lesson also has the students doing
research which is what standard three is about, research and information fluency. Also by requiring the
research part of the lesson also has student thinking critically about the information that they are
putting on their page on the wiki which covers standard four.
Since available technology was used to design and plan the lesson, this covers standard 6.1 in
the Kentucky Teacher Standards. The lesson also addresses standard 6.2 since the available technology
is facilitating student learning. Not only is the technology is facilitating student learning but the students
are using the technology which is was 6.3 talks about. Finally, the lesson also covers 6.5 as the lesson
shows how I use the technology in a legal and ethical way.
The literature about wikis talk about the significance of them being that anyone who has access
to the wiki page can edit it which makes them a great way to collaborate online. So when students have
to do group work they can work together from home without need to be in the same location to do so
(Educause Learning Initiative). According to Mindel and Verma (2006) when wikis are used as an
instructional tool, it can muddle the distinction between reader and contributor which promotes a view
of the teacher as a facilitator of knowledge-sharing among students rather than as a distributor of
knowledge to students. Also the wiki lesson allows students to acquire critical analysis skills since they
are participants in community knowledge accumulation that acquired on a wiki site (Siegle, 2008).
When looking at this lesson and thinking about the TPACK model, most if not all students have
heard of wikis before which means they are in the awareness phase. The goal of this lesson is to take
these students from the awareness to the praxis phase where they are capable users of wikis. This
happens because the students are actually contributing to the wiki. They are creating pages and putting
information on them and editing as they see fit. Finally this lesson covers the following Common Core
standards for math, 6.NS.A.1 which is interpret and compute quotients of fraction and solve word
problems involving division of fractions by fraction, e.g., by using visual fractions models and equations
to represent the problem, 6.NS.B.3 which is fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit
decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation, and 5.NF.A.1 which is add and subtract
fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with
equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like
denominators.