On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Shiju Alex
<shijualexonline@gmail.com> wrote:
Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India is, about the selection of articles for editing. We can ask students to contribute to articles that they are interested in, rather than of all of them editing the articles on the same topic.
This is related to something I've been thinking about.
As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and about having fun while learning.
In practice, did it remain like that? Going by what I read, it sounded like many of the students were under high stress to turn in these wikipedia assignments to their teachers - and used every possible shortcut in the book. (Exactly what I would have done in my student days).
I may be totally off-base on this, but am curious, so would appreciate some info.
My question is: if this becomes a high stress exam type situ, is the student likely to a)either see it as fun b)go back to it later for fun? In which case, is this student likely to become a prospective wikipedia editor, or is this student going to treat this as a one-time thing and never want to do this ever again? (Given relationship with stress, exams, teachers, marks)?
Also - larger related qs: is the aim of the India Ed program to increase article content on wp (which can be done short-term) or to increase the number of editors? Or both?
Cheers,
Bishakha