Rheingold’s video

Reflect on Rheingold’s video, and then respond to the following:


Do you believe that humans have a basic instinct to “interact and work as a group,” as Rheingold proposed in his discussion of the evolution of Wikipedia as a collectively developed encyclopedia? How can technology facilitate collaboration among learners based on constructivist principles?

Under the right situations, yes, groups of people will come together to create for the benefit of all. There are examples in TV shows, for example Stargate Universe. They (civilians and Military) have to work together in order to stay alive in space unknown light years from Earth in an alien spacecraft. Most horror movies have groups that have to work together to stay alive from some rampaging person or animals or some other unknown risk. Not everyone can be a Rambo or the actor that played a vigilante knocking off bad people.
 
According to the skills we are using in our classes under educational technology most, if not all the "tools" we are using can work to the benefit of collaboration over the Internet.
 
Rheingold's use of the wikipedia can be collaborative, but since most colleges will not allow the use of the wikipeadia as a source document, it sort of cancels out the usage value.