Combining Wikis and JiTT to enhance critical thinking abilities
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Abstract
I report the combine use of Just in Time Teaching (\textbf{JiTT}) and \textbf{W}ikispaces (\textbf{Wikis}) in introductory level, calculus based, physics classes. Over the years, JiTT had been effectively used in teaching physics and some uses on Wikis were also reported in the recent years.\footnote{H. Mohottala The Physics Teacher -- September 2011 -- Vol. 49, Issue 6} Wiki helps students, instructors and technology to interact with one another and JiTT boosts the self-confidence of students to tackle physics problems. Thus, the combine use of Wiki-JiTT is going to be a new experience for both instructors and students. In this experiment, I used Wikis as a platform for JiTT, and conventional JiTT was slightly altered to best fit the combination and to focus on enhancing critical thinking abilities in my students.
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Authors
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Hashini Mohottala
University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117