2009/9/29 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > 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.
I agree. Some of my teachers have set homework tasks and just said 'copy/paste from Wikipedia if you want, I don't care as long as it is done', others have said the complete opposite - 'don't use Wikipedia, it's bad and unreliable'. I have been wanting correct those teachers who have said it is wrong in pointing out some of the main policies concerning reliability of content and sources, but I haven't had the chance yet. I do think it's shocking though, the divide. I haven't yet mentioned I contribute to Wikipedia, I did in my last school and they didn't really care. ;) -- Regards, Isabell Long. <[email protected]> [[User:Isabell121]] on all public Wikimedia projects. Freenode Community Co-Ordinator - issyl0 on irc.freenode.net PGP Key ID: 0xEB83C2BD (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.8) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJKwnvlAAoJEG5r5CXrg8K9hd0QAL9bdnhLsXkXtPAhndtpjEws MYNh18T7jShdDFT9a9TYIrShRcijO9lwxRqnPpnXDeEs6MwPxu7AhhEFYcflBjnr 6Js0qztxsrRkMWePP4kvT4KA2l9CHxr32DfDjBf/4SOBijb5DJrav4Q83GFJfzIC s6xzZg7wmsH8qyzvKRHOJqsMaOydLefVs8oPB9OA2jEwvtnpqnKh6mdr8oGH+Wk+ OdtCP9dXRh1cR5OP0M/2zAMKCpN1wWTJwDWJZDVrvKEqtzu2JWY0uFFjearwEmMQ IfkBZ/7J5d7wlfaO5dwUHwxJ4iQwWd7qnemLUlJdtH9cA2SS+g25orfTQbA+nC6P 1edDX6DpoZNq4Bidy5KdrYnZMb6t6A/Hg/+d0u3xO9JSyQD7ck4xy43CC0Cu13PW ez+o9MXa3RSHK9LNzp1huIWRJs8aIfkSr8isI9F1BM0xVknR6oXL12ZxM+DX922v NejT5p8irp9+5BjeM5FNG9OJwz/rZXz65eOd4Q5Z8SHLhY9BqrAdHj4FA/ATi9L8 MMl7i/oriuUzhln1WqP4p5UN/PZKMC9dJ/2iY0Buua5fP96Q35+V+zukdB3p5D/g 7uwP1sZsh2btfehFHGFMjPAZ9v3XBhJiyPIdmwjMx/s5t/kdknXpphb2UWKC1CuZ NcdSDOrdkx7i8xDbC6uF =Gv1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
