2009/11/12 zeyi <zeyi...@googlemail.com> > Hi, all, > > According to the school project we set up, (check here if you need > more information > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project), I have > discussed the possibility with the head of sixth forum, she suggested > two things. one is we need some documents to prove that "Wikipedia and > relevant projects have affected school age students on some way", > which will give more sense to committee who can accept us to host the > workshop on schools. Second, we need more detail proposal to explain > our school project and the content of workshop. > > I can complete the proposal with cooperating to others. However, I am > wondering that any one has resource about how Wikipedia and relevant > projects influence school students? anything is helpful, reports, > survey, blog and academic articles? >
Hi Zeyi, There is quite little empirical work that I know of relating to the effect of Wikipedia on children/teenagers. (There is more on potential effects, general wiki (ie non-WP) literature, etc.) One paper that comes to mind is Forte & Bruckman [1] - though the sample here was undergraduate students. The authors have written another chapter on 'Human-Computer Interaction for kids' - I'm not sure whether it deals with Wikipedia specifically - you could get in touch with the authors [2], or I could do so (I know one of them) and report back. Let me know which you'd prefer. A good, recent paper is Harouni [3], which discusses high school students' critical research skills in using Wikipedia. Another you might be interested in is the write-up of a project to improve articles on Latin American Literature, which had a lot of input from Wikipedians [4] - though again, it's about graduate students. Cormac [1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/ForteBruckmanFromWikipedia.pdf [2] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/index.html ; http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/ [3] http://www.hepg.org/her/abstract/742 [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness
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