Hi Gina! I know i'm late in the thread, and it seems you have a sound plan, but just in case you're still putting your slides together, allow me to share this:
https://goo.gl/Dlzdsj The Mythbuster section in particular might be aligned with some of the things you are trying to explain. Best Regards, Vahid. On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Jackie Koerner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Vahid Masrour Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program [email protected] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
