2009/9/29 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]>: > > This weekend I learned about the phrase "Wikipedia education". > Apparently it is used in Swedish ("Wikipedia-undervisning") to > describe the kind of teacher-less lessons where school kids are > left to "research" a topic on their own. Typically they google and > find facts in Wikipedia, which they copy to their papers. The > phrase does not say anything about Wikipedia in itself, but > describes an irresponsible attitude from some teachers. The sad > effect is that Wikipedia's name is associated with something bad. > > How could we turn this around, so Wikipedia is associated with > serious knowledge and good education?
What you describe isn't necessarily a bad thing. Independent learning and research is a very important part of education. It all comes down to the details of how it is done. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
