Wikis: Promoting collaborative literacy through affordable technology in content-area classrooms

Educators may realize the impact technology has on students, but may be ill equipped to integrate high-tech de-vices into the classroom in an affordable way. Educators can capitalize on students ’ experience with technology by incorporating wikis, a collaborative webpage, into classroom instruction. Studies indicate that wiki technol-ogy can greatly enhance student collaboration and build content-area literacy skills. There are several re-search-based applications for implementing wiki technology into content-area classrooms. However, educators must consider the effect of wikis on curricula before integrating wikis into the classroom