Hi Valerie, On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > As an assignment in a community college course, my students are asked > to find a learning resource in WikiEducator. Finding good learning > objects in WE can be difficult, so I have included this assignment to > have students find what they thought was complete and interesting. > Although there is usually some frustration, they find some amazing WE > pages. I'm accumulating a list of pages they discover. > > However, sometimes I get more information and feedback than I > bargained for... I though this was an interesting comment from one of > my students. > "Also, the color scheme and design of the website is exactly the same > as Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is known for false information, and cannot > be used for research papers. I feel that this site is similar to > Wikipedia; therefore, this site's information cannot be trusted." >
See Special Report Internet encyclopaedias go head to head Jim Giles Nature 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438900a; Published online 14 December 2005 The study by Nature suggests that in scientific articles, the accuracy of articles in wikipedia vs encylopedia britannica are near equal Several other studies have been done on this phenomenon. See refs in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia > Sigh... Yes, some of our faculty are convinced that Wikipedia and by > association, all wikis, especially those that look like Wikipedia > because they use Mediawiki are evil and populated by gangs of internet > hooligans intent on provide false information to unsuspecting web > users. They explicitly forbid the use of Wikipedia. > This position by people in academia is simply ignorant of the facts connected to the issue. One could counter argue that forbidding the use of Wikipedia or wikis in education is a massive disservice to students, given that: 1. Wikis are in widespread use throughout the world, and thus delivering literacies for effective use of collaborative learning tools and processes is fundamental to education in the 21st century 2. There is no sound basis for total rejection of wikis, given that all studies conclude that wiki references tend to be at least as accurate as commercially produced references. > Has anyone else heard of similar credibility issues for WikiEducator > content? Is this something that is limiting adoption of WE learning > objects? > This attitude is widespread in academia due to fear. Academia is afraid that collaborative learning in the digital medium will obsolete the monopoly that Universities and related institutions now have on resources and educational domains. The flip side of this is that some institutions *are* adopting collaborative technologies, as we've found in our work producing the open source http://socialmediaclassroom.com project software > ..Valerie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- -- Sam Rose Social Synergy Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: [email protected] http://socialsynergyweb.com http://forwardfound.org http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing http://flowsbook.panarchy.com/ http://socialmediaclassroom.com http://localfoodsystems.org http://notanemployee.net http://communitywiki.org "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan
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