Dear Collab members,
It's about time we gather again. We have a few topics to cover, and you may
have other ideas as well:
- the #EduWiki campaign if formally finishing today, so it would be
useful to share our perceptions and learning around it.
- Nichole Saad has joined the Education team at the Foundation, so it
will be great to have a chance to "meet" her as well.
- We also feel it's time to get a very participative conversation on the
future of the Collab started: how it should evolve, and how it can best
serve the needs of the movement (and of the education programs in
particular). An e-mail on this topic will follow.
- Conversations on education: how can we make sure that everybody feels
there is a place to have meaningful conversations on Education Programs for
everyone in the movement?
With all that in mind, we would like to propose tentatively Wednesday 16th
or Thursday 17th as possible dates for our next meeting.
Please help us figure out the ideal date (or the least worst) by
participating in the Doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/fw7ci9snixm6eshb
See you and talk to you soon!
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Hi,
Vahid asked me to sum up the organization of the #EduWiki campaign in the
Czech Republic. First, we decided that it is our long-term goal to attract
primary and secondary school pupils to Wikipedia. This is because most
people started editing Wikipedia at early age. We don't think that teaching
edit Wikipedia is really efficient, because most are unable to produce a
good quality article without us helping a lot. Rather, we'd like them to
learn *about *Wikipedia and how it is written. Teachers can use Wikipedia
as a cool example on which they can improve their pupils' *digital literacy*.
Because teaching digital literacy is a priority of the Czech government,
this proved as an achievable goal in the long-term. We called this
campaign Teach
(with) Wiki <https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:U%C4%8D_(s)_Wiki>.
We prepared drafts of *lesson plans*, a bit different from the ones
prepared by WMF but they do take some inspiration from them. This is not
because the plans written by WMF are trash, but rather because we wanted to
write something exceptional that will lay foundations to something bigger
(read on).
But we knew we needed *allies*. We contacted our friends in EDUin (an NGO
promoting innovation in education) who have experience with contacting
media and educational institutions and together prepared a press release
and organized a press conference. This helped us to spread the idea which
really attracted attention (about 10 articles in press TV and radio). We
were invited by the Ministry of Education to talk about our idea and they
will help us improve it and spread the word. We are still polishing the
three 45-minute lesson plans but once they are all out, they will be public
and hopefully also translated into English at some point. Also we hope to
attract teachers to try using them in their lessons as early as this year.
Next year, we want to register "Wikipedia and teaching digital literacy" in
the formal governmental *system of postgradual teachers education* so that
we can organize accredited course and gain (governmental or EU) financial
support for them. This is a way to get Wikipedia to many teachers in
primary and secondary school and thus to their pupils. Some of these pupils
may be so intrigued by Wikipedia that they start editing it, who knows? We
definitely want to devise methods to find this out retrospectively.
I hope you find this interesting,
cheers
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chair of the board
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