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This is the Wiki for Birmingham East City Learning Centre
Birmingham East City Learning Centre is a UK Government funded facility, one of 105 in England, that undertakes research and development into how digital technologies and digital learning environments can be exploited to enhance the learning experience of students and the effectiveness and efficiency of educators.

This wiki has been created in order to give use the opportunity to develop our understanding of the ways wikis can be used as a learning tool.

We are keen to come to understand the pedagogy and management of the technology and then to pass this understanding onto our teaching colleagues as part of a professional development programme.

Whilst we are aware that young people are comfortable using what has become to be know as Web 2.0 technologies we are not confident that teachers are exploiting such technologies to engage their students. Indeed we are not confident that the majority of teachers are aware that such technologies exist and even if they are personal users of blogs, social networking sites, etc. they not considered how these could be used in a learning/teaching context.

We look forward to exploiting Wikispaces for the benefit of teaching and learning.