ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills
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Taking Your Student from Information Searcher to Wikipedian

CT asks Gardner Campbell about a current teaching and learning strategy in which students create and publish their own contributions to Wikipedia articles on the open Web — moving them from information searchers to Wikipedians.

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Students defend the future of facts on Wikipedia

Students defend the future of facts on Wikipedia | ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills | Scoop.it
A decade ago, Amy Carleton, a lecturer in comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a sign in her classroom in capital letters that read: “Wikipedia is not a source”.

Fast forward to 2018 and not only has Dr Carleton taken down the sign but she is now using the online encyclopedia to help teach her courses.

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Five ways academics can contribute to Wikipedia –

Five ways academics can contribute to Wikipedia – | ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills | Scoop.it

In recent weeks, the world learned about Dr. Donna Strickland, only the third woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. It also learned that Wikipedia lacked an article on Strickland amongst its over five million articles. Wikipedia subsequently received justifiable criticism for its low percentage of female editors, its editing culture, and its replication of the world’s systemic biases.


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