DIGITAL COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT IN AN INFORMAL ONLINE ENVIRONMENT: A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE USING WIKIPEDIA
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Digital Competences, Assessment, Participatory Evaluation, Wikipedia, Informal Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
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This article presents a university teaching experience related to digital competence acquisition and assessment through the creation and editing of Wikipedia entries. The concept of digital competence is based on the European Framework DigComp 2.1. The process of creating entries has been monitored in its various forms across formal and informal learning contexts. The aim is to create a true knowledge building environment that favours authentic, situated and participatory evaluation through regulatory interventions from teacher and tutors, and via feedback from other Wikipedia users.
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Bell, S. (2010). Project-based learning for the 21st century: Skills for the future. The Clearing House, 83(2), 39-43. doi: 10.1080/00098650903505415
Bergmann, J., & Sams, A. (2012). Flip your classroom: Reach every student in every class every day. Washington, DC, USA: International Society for Technology in Education.
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Bloom, B. S.; Engelhart, M. D., Furst, E. J., Hill, W. H., & Krathwohl, D. R. (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals. Handbook I: Cognitive domain. New York, NY, USA: David McKay Company.
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Calvani, A., Fini, A., & Ranieri, M. (2010). La competenza digitale nella scuola. Modelli e strumenti per svilupparla e valutarla. Trento, IT: Erickson.
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Ferrari, A., Punie, Y., & Brečko, B. N. (Eds.). (2013). DIGCOMP: A framework for developing and understanding digital competence in Europe. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
Galliani L. (2013). Apprendimento in età adulta, contesti e reti. Lectio magistralis presentata alla Conferenza ICT and Adult learning. European Agenda on Adult Learning. Torino, IT: Isfol.
Galliani, L., & Notti, A. (2014). Valutazione educativa. Lecce, IT: Pensa MultiMedia.
Garvoille, A., & Buckner, G. (2009). Writing Wikipedia Pages in the Constructivist Classroom. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009 (pp. 1600-1605). Chesapeake, VA, USA: AACE.
Gentili, C. (2014). Istruzione tecnica tra sapere e cultura d’impresa. Formazione & Insegnamento. Rivista internazionale di Scienze dell’educazione e della formazione, 10(2), 141-164.
Griffin, P., & Care, E. (Eds.). (2014). Assessment and teaching of 21st century skills: Methods and approach. Dordrecht, NL: Springer.
Hattie, J. (2009). Visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. London - New York, NY, USA: Routledge.
Jonassen, D. (2002). Learning to solve problems online. In C. Vrasidas, & G.V. Glass (Eds.), Distance education and distributed learning (pp. 75-98). Greenwich, CT, USA: Information Age Publishing.
Kittur, A., & Kraut, R. E. (2008). Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in Wikipedia: quality through coordination. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 37-46). doi: 10.1145/1460563.1460572
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Parmigiani, D., Traverso, A., Pennazio, V., & Olivieri, A. (2016). Web-based information search: strategies and differences between tablet and pc use. Italian Journal of Educational Technology, 23(3), 148-154.
Patrick, W. (2010). Recognising non-formal and informal learning outcomes, policies and practices. OECD publishing. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/education/innovation-education/recognisingnon-formalandinformallearningoutcomespoliciesandpractices.htm
Reddy, Y. M., & Andrade, H. (2010). A review of rubric use in higher education. Assessment & evaluation in higher education, 35(4), 435-448. doi: 10.1080/02602930902862859
Resnick, L. B. (1995). Imparare dentro e fuori la scuola. In Pontecorvo, C., Ajello, A. M., Zucchermaglio, C. (eds.), I contesti sociali dell’apprendimento (pp. 61-84). Milano, IT: LED.
Rivoltella, P. C. (2013). Fare didattica con gli EAS. Episodi di apprendimento situati. Brescia, IT: Editrice La Scuola.
Roth, S., & Erstad, O. (2013). Networked lives for learning: digital media and young people across formal and informal contexts. In G. Trentin, & M. Repetto (Eds.), Using Network and Mobile Technology to Bridge Formal and Informal Learning (pp. 119-152). Oxford, UK: Woodhead/Chandos Publishing Limited.
Scardamalia, M., Bransford, J., Kozma, B., & Quellmalz, E. (2012). New assessments and environments for knowledge building. In Assessment and teaching of 21st century skills (pp. 231-300). Netherlands: Springer.
Sigalov, S. E., & Nachmias, R. (2017). Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning: A new course model in higher education. Education and Information Technologies, 22(6), 2959-2979. doi: 10.1007/s10639-016-9564-z
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Surowiecki, J. (2005). The wisdom of crowds: why the many are smarter than the few. London, UK: Abacus.
Tessaro, F. (2014). Lo sviluppo della competenza. Indicatori e processi per un modello di valutazione. Formazione & insegnamento. Rivista internazionale di Scienze dell'educazione e della formazione, 10(1), 105-120.
Trentin G. (2014). Come trasformare un’esigenza estrema in una straordinaria opportunità di innovazione didattica e crescita professionale per i docenti. TD Tecnologie Didattiche, 22(1), 31-38.
Troia, S. (2017, November 23). DigComp 2.1: presentazione del modello italiano. Retrieved from http://www.cittadinanzadigitale.eu/blog/2017/11/23/digcomp-2-1/
Wannemacher, K. (2009). Articles as assignments - Modalities and experiences of Wikipedia use in university course. In M.Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma, & R. W. H. Lau (Eds.), Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5686 (pp.434-443). Berlin, DE: Springer.
Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W.M. (2007). Coltivare comunità di pratica. Prospettive e esperienze di gestione della conoscenza. Milano, IT: Guerini e Associati.
Wiggins, G. (1998). Educative Assessment. Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Zheng, B., Niiya, M., & Warschauer, M. (2015). Wikis and collaborative learning in higher education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 24(3), 357-374. doi: 10.10.80/1475939X.2014.948041