INTRODUCTION

Purpose of the Wiki
===This wiki is designed to demonstrate the use of the Wiki for Educational Purposes. It will benefit educational technology students, as well as participants in the workshop "Retaining Adolescent Male Interest In Education In Preparation for Life".===

A Wiki is a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007)

While a wiki is a type of content management system, it differs from a blog or most other such systems in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users. This page is intended to show that a wiki page can be as useful as the textbook and the blackboard within the classroom.

According to Prensky (2001) students are now coming into the classroom with ICT knowledge. Therefore, we need to adjust our pedagogical and content teaching strategies to accommodate the use of ICT within the classroom. One such way is through Project Based Learning (PBL). According to Papanikolaou and Boubouka (2010) project-based learning (PBL) is rooted in the idea that a problem or question drives learning activities toward the construction of a concrete artifact in an authentic context. The use of a Wiki affords the teacher the opportunity to create such problem based opportunities that can be done both inside and outside the classroom.

Participants of the workshop "Retaining Adolescent Male Interest in Education in Preparation for Life" will find the "Action to Save Our Boys" PowerPoint presentation in the "Pages and Files section of this wiki".

So Let's take a look at all the possibilities ICT can afford educators as they approach Problem Based Learning in the 21st Century.