Gina, Love this!!! I am so excited for you and the people who come to your session. Do let us know how it goes!
Best, Jackie -- Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. Researcher & Visiting Scholar jackiekoerner.com > On Mar 26, 2018, at 9:49 PM, Gina Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > hello again, Wikipedia Education participants > > First, let me thank all of you who have contributed such great ideas, > resource links, & offers of help with my upcoming presentation about > Wikipedia for Adult Educators. Your suggestions have helped me a LOT & I am > feeling much more confident about moving forward with this presentation. > > So far, I've put together a rough schedule of my 1.5 hour > workshop/presentation. I've included it below, & you'll notice that I've > incorporated suggestions from a number of you in my planning: > > To start (~ first 5 mins.): Introduction of the workshop & the presenter > (me), as well as a short explanation of my perspective, about the incident > which made me so passionate about access to knowledge & why I became > interested in WP. > > next 10 mins: What you *thought* you knew about Wikipedia: a short > interactive quiz to expose some of the myths people may still believe about > WP (I can post my quiz to anyone in this mailing list who is interested) > > 15 mins: Intro to WP. I am thinking I might just use Pen-Yuan Hsing's Vimeo > presentation (https://vimeo.com/234993156) because it says what I want to > say & because it is just SO excellent (I will be sure to attribute you, > Pen-Yuan!) > > 15 mins.: Action item 1: Case Study. > I would like to assign a popular topic in Adult Education which has > recently seen some controversy (e.g. Multiple intelligences). Most > participants will have a laptop or tablet so they can work in small groups > to look up this term. Note how a quick search using Google (or even Google > Scholar) yields a wealth of explanatory or how-to resources. BUT - when you > look this up in WP, you very quickly see that this concept has come under > debate (important to know this!!!) We can examine the anatomy of a WP > article (article page, Talk page, History) to see how knowledge about the > topic evolves & is presented, reviewed, and negotiated; how we can form a > more nuanced view. We can also talk about how WP works to provide > knowledge depth and integrity, with internal links, external links, related > articles, portals, categories, discussion pages. > > 15 - 25 mins.: Action item 2: So what?? We could do this part in small > groups or back in the large group, depending on how things are flowing. I > might start off the discussion like this: Our Adult Education programs are > designed to help our students transition, with confidence, into the next > stage of their learning journey: whether university/college programming, a > technical program, a trade, or just more strongly-informed participation as > citizens, parents, community members etc. Some questions to get/keep the > discussion going: > > - In this world of Facebook, "fake news", tabloids, and super-easy > access to all kinds of information, what would you like your students to > understand about knowledge? > - Knowing what you know now about how knowledge is constructed, debated, > negotiated, reviewed etc. in WP, how you might use this in your practice? > - How do your students currently use WP? Or -- how do you suspect they > are using WP? How could they be using it more effectively? How can you use > this as an opportunity to talk about where knowledge comes from & how to be > critical about the information they read? > > In the last half-hour (if time & interest permit): let's try editing! I'm > thinking of creating a page in my WP sandbox for our professional > association, & getting everybody to help us produce at least a stub > article. Participants can create a WP account if they like (& will be > encouraged to do so!!) or just contribute references & text that we can put > together to make a stub. Would be really exciting if we could make this > live & -- who knows -- maybe some people will even add to it after the > workshop. > > As always, I am open to more of your thoughts & suggestions. > > Appreciatively > Gina Bennett > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
