Hi Edward, All the best for the new year -- I trust that your move went well and now settled in your new location.
2010/1/21 Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> > > > It is true that Wikipedia should never be cited as a primary source > for research. The same is generally true of other Wikis. The correct > attitude is not to ban use of Wikis, but to require that students find > the original sources for the information in the Wiki, and to study and > cite those sources. You should not take the word of any participant > here for fact, but should yourself look at the research papers, > software, learning materials, and methods recommended and evaluate > them accordingly. Wikis are neither more nor less reliable than other > published encyclopedias, newspapers, TV, or other secondary and > tertiary sources. > > Good point -- I recall my educators (pre wikis ;-) ) teaching us that we shouldn't believe everything we read! It fascinates me how some of the academy discards and discounts normal processes of knowledge validation when the technology changes ;-). WE have a big education task in helping faculty understand how these open processes work particularly with reference to the skills of discernment and validation in social networking environments. In time I'm optimistic that we can get this right --- I suppose one could argue that how to discern and validate knowledge in social networked environments is a contemporary life-skill (academics included ;-) ). Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- 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]
