Hi Anna,
Many thanks for your kind words. Yes, the schools building programme capital
implementation grant is primarily funded by UK central government
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Schools_for_the_Future), and delivered
by local government (Leicester City Council). The DigiLit Leicester project has
been developed in partnership with De Montfort University and 23 local school
communities http://www.digilitleic.com/).
On a less positive note, the council were criticised in the Mail on Sunday this
week for supporting the project:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123142/30-000-teach-pupils-use-Wikipedia-Fury-council-pays-expert-children-critically-engage-online-encyclopaedia.html
Best, Josie
From: Anna Koval <[email protected]>
To: Josie Fraser <[email protected]>; Wikimedia Education
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 12 June 2015, 19:32
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipdia information literacy resources for
secondary school/K12 learners
Hi Josie,
Thanks so much for sharing this. It sounds very interesting.
I was curious to learn more, so I Googled "BSF ICT Innovation and Learning
Group consultation" (which was mentioned in the blog post [1] ) and found this
article in The Guardian [2] which references: "The government's £45bn Building
Schools for the Future (BSF) programme to rebuild or refurbish all secondary
schools in England within the next 10-15 years..."
My question is: would you consider this to be a government partnership of
sorts? I believe I would. If you agree, I'd like to add this to the Government
Partnerships page on Outreach:Education. [3] :)
Thank you again for your leadership on this project and for sharing it with the
global education community.
All the best,
Anna
[1] http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889[2]
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/18/link.link11[3]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Government_Partnerships#United_Kingdom
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Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Josie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Alex, and thanks for the encouraging reply. The format that the activities
and games take will be determined by the team appointed in consultation with
school staff and young people. They may be web hosted but not web based for
example, and it's likely they will include activities for groups. We've put up
a little more info on our blog: Wikipedia - support for schools
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The Wikipedia Adventure game is great - I'll be sure to pass on the link and
your contact details to the team appointed (if they aren't already aware of
them).
Many thanks! Josie
From: Alex Stinson <[email protected]>
To: Josie Fraser <[email protected]>; Wikimedia Education
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2015, 16:27
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipdia information literacy resources for
secondary school/K12 learners
Hi Josie,
That sounds like a really interesting project. At the Wikipedia Library, we
have been thinking a lot about readerly literacy in Wikipedia (and hope to
build a portal to expose people to research literacy information), and the age
group that you are targeting these materials for, would be fairly good for a
public audience as well. Will this work product/game based learning material
have to be in an on-wiki format?
It would be awesome if we could distribute it more broadly, while keeping
people on Wikipedia. I am thinking the game-architecture used for the The
Wikipedia Adventure (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure ) would allow
for such a piece of information to be shared with members of the editing
community and become a standard link on things like welcome templates.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Josie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
For those of you who haven't seen it, Leicester City Council are currently
tendering for a team to work on a short games based learning project with
schools and 13/14 year olds, to create games to support Wikipedia use and
engagement: http://www.sourceleicestershire.co.uk/contracts/show/id/12580
Please do pass on to people you know who the work might suit. For those outside
the UK, the outputs will of course all be shared under an open licence and I'll
post an update to the list.
Best, Josie Fraser@josiefraser
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