Being an Old IT person I found the creating a profile Wiki fairly standard, I did however note that the design or implementation of the Wiki had a few flaws and was not overly user friendly.
For my students to use something similar could be a value in learning in a few ways. for those who are not fimilar with Wikis/blogging it could open the door to a whole new social outlet with many learning opportunities. It gets students to look at themselves and analyse what type of people they are and also read about who their colleagues are and their personality traits, there could be similar people who have never talked to each other.
Filling out the Wiki scaffold is constructivist and maybe cognitive if the questions are deep and meaningful. There may even be some Connectivism if students link in some other sites for sporting teams etc.
The Wiki is a simplistic learning experience for Logically intelligent people and is step by step follow the procedure exercise so I don't think there is any diversity for such a small task.
Doing this activity for a group of learners is technically a small step, however the information obtained out of it for the learners could be beneficial. Finding out people are similar learners or have similar interests can help form groups for learning and reflection.
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