WISE is a customizable platform created by professionals from the educational, technological, and scientific fields that is a resource which uses the internet and various interactive activities to facilitate students in knowledge construction.  It is founded on principles of the SKI framework, cognitive apprenticeship, and constructivist pedagogy.  SKI promotes knowledge integration through its technological and curriculum design in four major ways.  SKI make science visible or identifies new goals for learning, makes thinking visible, provides social supports and helps students learn from each other, and it promotes lifelong autonomous learning.

While both WISE and the Jasper series are intended to engage a student in inquiry-based learning, they clearly have their differences.  WISE is a more modern approach that integrates interactive technology to facilitate knowledge construction.  The Jasper series is a narration or story in which a problem unfolds that students need to solve, whereas WISE is a series of activities that take the student on a learning journey in a more structured format.

I think WISE projects would make for excellent resources for students with alternate learning scenarios, whether it be students with learning difficulties or students who miss a lot of school because of sports or health situations.  WISE’s customizability is an amazing feature that puts the teacher in the designing chair so a project can be changed according to its intended use to suit the needs of the learners or teacher.  At this point with my limited exposure to WISE, I don’t think I would change anything, but rather make more projects available covering more subjects and grade levels.