SWOT Analysis on Wiki Mobil Phone Activity

A SWOT anaylsis can be used to help define student knowledge on a topic.  This can assist discovering what a student knows about a topic, misconceptions, obsticles to learning and what needs to be reinforced.  Here is one that I created for the Wiki activity:

Strengths ·         Allows all individuals to participate including those who may be normally too shy to do so in class ·         Collaborative ·         Flexible ·         Real world use of ICT ·         Ongoing ·         Allow for higher order thinking ·         Reflective ·         Analytical ·         Easy to use ·         Safe environment ·         Information can be altered but previous versions in history ·         Trust ·         Teacher can track individual student participation through history ·         Assessment can be built in ·         Supports TPACK

Weaknesses ·         Need ICT knowledge ·         Need suitable hardware ·         Students may not have internet access at home ·         Computers may be ‘offline’ at times ·         Can be fiddly, e.g. tables ·         Teacher can’t be in control at all times ·         Security needs to be firm

Opportunities ·         Real world learning and teaching ·         Students can use their creativity by embedding multimodal tools ·         Excellent opportunities for safe digital citizenship experiences: cybersafety, copyright, netiquette ·         Get to know and understand your students ·         Students get to know each other

Threats ·         Inappropriate behaviour ·         Breaches of copyright ·         Student resistance ·         Lack of ICT skills