> > From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/07/18 Fri PM 09:42:18 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO - No Political or Religious Comment Intended > > I always deal with Wikipedia in my courses. It's just plain stupid to > pretend students won't use it. I usually look up the topics we are > covering and we talk about the accuracy of the articles. It's very > useful since I can make the important point that you can never > completely trust ANY single source.
Sensible to look at it first, so you are less likely to receive 473 identical copies of students' "own work". > > >>> "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/18/2008 5:01 PM >>> > Sad to say Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica > > http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html?hhTest=1. > > Of course the source is CNet so YMMV. > > Doug Franklin wrote: > > AlunFoto wrote: > > > >> 2008/7/18 Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>> AlunFoto wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Well just kidding, but there's a huge grayzone between generally > >>>> agreed-upon facts and opinion-based articles. Just think of the > >>>> ever-lasting re-interpretation of history... > >>>> > >>> Exactly. I'll use it to look up mathematical formulae and things > like > >>> that, but history, sociology, etc., I'll use a different source. > >>> > >> hmmm... > >> What kind of source would you prefer for such topics? > >> > > > > Current and historical academic literature and other first sources by > > > preference. If I'm in a hurry, a more traditional encyclopedia with > a > > reputation for doing the background validation research on the > articles > > before publishing them, peer-reviewed journals from the field, > > well-known and -established monographs, etc. > > > > > > > -- > You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word > alone. > --Al Capone. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > !SIG:4881097a67101332813680! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
