Andrea Forte und Amy Bruckman liefern in ihrem Paper Constructing Text: Wiki as a Toolkit for Collaborative?) Learning zuerst eine Einführung in die des Sozialen Konstruktionismus (nicht Konstruktivismus!) und bezeichnen dann Wiki als optimales Werkzeug für kollaborative Textproduktion. Im zweiten Teil des Papers stellen sie ihr Projekt "science online" vor, eine wikibasierte Lernumgebung, wo Lernende Artikel zu wissenschaftlichen Themen verfassen können. Zu diesem Zweck wurde MediaWiki um ein ReferenceTool für bibliographische Verweise und um TeacherTools und StudentView zur einfacheren Adminstration eines Wikis im Klassenverbund ergänzt.

Writing a book from which others can learn is itself a powerful learning experience. Based on this proposition, we have launched Science Online, a wiki to support learning in high school science classrooms through the collaborative production of an online science resource. Our approach to designing educational uses of technology is based on an approach to education called constructionism, which advocates learning by working on personally meaningful projects. Our research examines the ways that constructionism connects to collective models of knowledge production and learning such as Knowledge Building. In this paper, we explore ways that collaboration using wiki tools fits into the constructionist approach, we examine learning goals for youth growing up in a readwrite culture, and we discuss preliminary findings in an ongoing year-long study of Science Online in the classroom. Despite the radically open collaboration afforded by wiki, we observe that many factors conspired to stymie collaborative writing on the site. We expected to find cultural barriers to wiki adoption in schools. Unexpectedly, we are also finding that the design of the wiki tool itself contributed barriers to collaborative writing in the classroom.