BatrachoWiki and the Tasks to Be Solved with Its Help

BatrahoWiki and the tasks it can help solve Why is this needed? This page was created to facilitate an experiment in developing online reference materials collaboratively with students. A few words on why this is needed. It seems to me that the current model for conducting specialized theoretical courses—where the instructor lectures and explains, and students take notes and memorize—is hopelessly outdated. It was formed back when there was a shortage of quality educational literature, and scientific knowledge changed relatively slowly. The instructor (a specialist who had access to the literature) would convey the main ideas to the students... General, foundational courses can still be conducted in this manner with some degree of adequacy: at least they have a certain amount of material that can be considered mandatory. Workshops, where the instructor demonstrates how to do something, remain a thoroughly modern form of instruction. But when it comes to theoretical and specialized courses (perhaps not all of them, but only those focused on facts), I think something needs to change. Sources of a wide variety of information have recently become quite accessible. The pace of change is such that it is practically impossible to keep up with them in their entirety. A specialist is someone who knows where to look for the necessary information and can use it to solve the tasks set before them. Very often, these tasks involve the need to collect, process, and present information in the required format. We have attempted to implement this technology with students from the Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology as part of the course [[Batracology and Herpetology|Batracology and Herpetology]]. This experiment will now be continued as part of the course on the historical development of biosystems. How do you work with this? The rules for working with BatrakoWiki are outlined on this page: [[Working with BatrakoWiki|Working with BatrakoWiki]]. Your task: register on the site, grant me access to edit BatrakoWiki content, specify on this page the title of your page (the one you plan to create) and a link to it, save the changes, and edit your page. How to do this is described on the page dedicated to working with BatrakoWiki. If anything is unclear—don’t hesitate to ask; preferably in the comments on this page (so that your questions and my or your answers are visible to everyone else who might find this useful). I have a request for you: open this page in edit mode only briefly: figure out what you want to add to it, open it in edit mode, and save immediately. If two people edit the same page at the same time, they will interfere with each other. The person who tries to save it second will receive an error. In that case, you’ll need to go back to the page and make the same changes a little later. What do you need to do? In the course on the historical development of biosystems, the individual assignment (worth 20 out of 100 points) involves creating a webpage that examines the historical formation of any group or natural phenomenon. Requirements for this page: — clarity; — accuracy; — explanation of any observable characteristics of something through the history of the phenomenon’s development; — originality of the text (the text must be written independently; sources of quotations and illustrations must be cited in properly formatted references). Example of a link used to create a new page: [[Red rain in Kerala|Red rain in Kerala]] - Lyashenko Marina [[Hybridogenesis in green frogs|Hybridogenesis in green frogs]] Angelina Bobrova [[Evolution of a mitochondria-less eukaryotic organism|Evolution of a mitochondria-less eukaryotic organism]] - Maria Loboda [[Probable history of the development of orthograde locomotion|Probable history of the development of orthograde locomotion]] Maria Bashkatova [[Evolution of eukaryotes|Evolution of eukaryotes]] - Olga Volkova [[Evolution of the mammalian brain|Evolution of the mammalian brain]] Anna Bezruk [[Model of Extraterrestrial Life in Permafrost|Model of Extraterrestrial Life in Permafrost]] Marina Kit [[Evolution of Photosynthesis|Evolution of Photosynthesis]]- Svetlana Stepchenkova [[History of the Formation of Skeletal Faunas|History of the Formation of Skeletal Faunas]] - Natalia Terentyeva [[Origin and evolution of mammals. Permian theromorphic reptiles—ancestors of mammals. Formation of molars|Origin and evolution of mammals. Permian theromorphic reptiles—ancestors of mammals. The Formation of Molars]] - Vyacheslav Sosnitsky [[Mysterious Microorganisms from Loki Castle|Mysterious Microorganisms from Loki Castle]] - Yulia Baran [[Are sponges the oldest multicellular animals on Earth?|Are sponges the oldest multicellular animals on Earth]] - Anastasia Mykhailenko