Health

=HEALTH=

=Technology =
 * Wikis

=**Curriculum Standards **= CDC National Health Education Standards: Standard 7 Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. **

Grades 6-8 **
 * 7.8.1 Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.


 * 7.8.2 Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.

Students will work in groups to create and edit wiki pages about communicable diseases and how to prevent contracting and spreading them.
 * Description **

A journal article (available through KSU’s library website) provides responses from students who used a wiki in one of their courses. The article points out some of the pros and cons of using wikis and how students react to having their work modified by other class members.
 * Supporting Research **

Tried & True or New & Innovative? ** NI—The use of wiki pages in the classroom is still somewhat new but they are a major part of the World Wide Web and how ordinary people do research. Because our students are the authors of wiki pages of today and the future, knowing how to use wikis intelligently is a good skill for them to possess.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">References Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P., & Wheeler, D. (2008). The good, the bad and the wiki: evaluating student-generated content for collaborative learning. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">British Journal of Educational Technology //, //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">39 //(6), 987-995.