Durova's evil guide to plagiarism: "Don't copy from the live version of the article. Copy a historic version from a year ago. Your teacher doesn't understand how Wikipedia page histories work and won't find the text on a Google search. The older version will appear more primitive and more believably yours. You'll get a safe B instead of a fingernail-biting A or an F for plagiarism. So go stay out late at that party, relax, and cheat smarter not harder."
(cackles, flees) On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Sam Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Michael Bimmler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Sam Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Thomas Larsen > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Admittedly, I haven't perused the entire article very thoroughly. > >>> However, I am /very/ skeptical about teaching primary school pupils > >>> how to blog at all, and I am strongly opposed to Wikipedia and Twitter > >>> taking the place of history in primary schools. > >> > >> To take a contrary view, teaching proper use of Wikipedia has the > >> potential to *improve* history in primary schools. > > > > How so? > > Primarily in teaching how *not* to use it! > > Naturally primary (and early secondary) education should include > teaching how to use the Internet in learning. Given Wikipedia's > prominence, it would of course be correct for such teaching to include > the proper use of Wikipedia. Students might be encouraged not to > regurgitate whole paragraphs from Wikipedia. > > Furthermore, there is the potential that teaching students to question > Wikipedia could lead to their being more disposed to question other > sources, which is obviously very useful in the study of any subject > (and supremely history). > > Sam > > -- > Sam > PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
