• The Elephant in the Room: A Place for Wikipedia in Higher Education? 

      Brox, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The article departs from a pilot survey among Norwegian teacher students that maps their usage, skills and attitudes in relation to the web based encyclopedia Wikipedia. The survey shows that the students are heavy users of Wikipedia content yet show a low level of knowledge as to how content is constructed or the ways in which Wikipedia differs from traditional, paper-based encyclopedias. ...
    • Troublesome tools: How can Wikipedia editing enhance student teachers’ digital skills? 

      Brox, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In schools and in higher education, we often understand digital skills as the ability to use various digital tools for learning. The article argues that in addition to viewing technology as means to acquire subject-related learning, teacher education also needs to include an explicit focus on technology as a topic in itself. This article presents a Wikipedia editing assignment in Social Science for ...
    • Whats in a wiki? Issues of agency in light of student teachers' encounters with wiki technology 

      Brox, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This paper reports from a collaborative creative writing project in teacher education that involved the use of wikis. A fortunate match between task and technology created much enthusiasm among student teachers, and – as evident from an analysis of their logs – a growing awareness of technology as something more than a tool neatly adapted to particular purposes. In interviews conducted at a later ...
    • Why won't they take them on? A study on student teachers' first-time engagement with wiki technology 

      Brox, Hilde (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-11-15)
      The topic of the dissertation is the use of wikis in teacher education. The study is based on two classroom interventions involving first-time use of wiki technology. In the first, 18 students of Social studies created a Wikipedia article; in the second, 13 students of Norwegian co-edited a fiction-based, class-only wiki. The study is concerned with how the student teachers engage with, make sense ...
    • Wiki, tekster og arbeidsmåter i morgendagens engelskfag: et eksempel fra lærerutdanninga 

      Brox, Hilde; Jakobsen, Ingrid K. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Artikkelen diskuterer hvordan wiki kan brukes i engelskundervisning for å la nye og tradisjonelle teksttyper møtes i digital interaksjon. Med utgangpunkt i begrepene multimodalitet, hypertekstualitet og prosessualitet diskuterer artikkelen et eksempel fra et undervisningopplegg for lærerstudenter. Basert på et bilde skapte studentene et felles nettsted og en kollektiv, fiktiv, men realistisk historie. ...