Education June 2014

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Education Program update: Rod Dunican is leaving the Foundation
by LiAnna Davis 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Forwarding this news for those of you not on the Announce list -- see below for Anasuya's announcement. Apologies for the cross-post. As someone who worked with Rod for the last four years on the Wikipedia Education Program, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank him for all the strategic work, problem solving, training development, and budget wrangling he’s done behind the scenes that have made the Wikipedia Education Program what it is today. Much of this work isn’t visible to people outside the education team, but it needs to be done, and Rod’s hard work in these areas has affected all aspects of the Wikipedia Education Program. I’ve had the privilege of working with Floor, Tighe, and Anna over the last several months, and I know Rod leaves a great team in place who will carry on our mission of getting contributing to Wikimedia projects into educational settings worldwide. Rod, thanks for all your hard work over the last four years! LiAnna On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > Rod Dunican (currently the Director, Wikipedia Education Program at WMF) > has announced that he is leaving the Foundation at the end of this month. > We are truly sorry to see him go; he has been such a critical part of the > Wikipedia Education Program and strategy for many years including his > leadership of the team. We wish you the very best, Rod, and look forward to > hearing of your new adventures. > > I am looking forward to working even more closely with the current > Education team: Anna Koval, Floor Koudijs and Tighe Flanagan. All three of > them have complementing skills and backgrounds, and have begun working > closely and effectively with each other and with the rest of the > Grantmaking team. With Rod, they have been working on an exciting shift in > strategy as they have moved from a more hands-on programmatic strategy to > becoming a facilitative hub in which the team supports different kinds of > local education programs. This has meant that the team has been working > with educational program leaders, volunteers and community organisers in > over 60 countries to map their education-related activities, successes and > challenges. The integration of the Wikipedia Education Program team into > the GLEE team also means valuable opportunities for the different grants > programs to work more closely to understand successful education programs > and to support them through grants and other resources. In particular, the > Education team’s focus on gender and geographic diversity as a strategy is > very much shared across the broader Grantmaking department. > > As the team goes forward to develop a road map for the future with our > community members, Floor Koudijs will be the interim Senior Manager for the > Education Program. Initially the team has been assigned different parts of > the world in order to create a baseline of educational programs and > activities, with Floor responsible for Latin America and Western Europe, > Tighe for the Arab region and Africa, and Anna for Asia and Eastern Europe. > Please look at the Education portal for more details.[1] > > Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me, or to Floor, Tighe and Anna, for > any comments or clarifications.[2] We look forward to working in > partnership with our communities worldwide as we support education programs > in service to the Wikimedia mission. > > Warmly, > > Anasuya > > [1] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program > [2] Floor: fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org Tighe: tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org Anna: > akoval(a)wikimedia.org > > -- > > > *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > -- LiAnna Davis Head of Communications and External Relations Wiki Education Foundation +1-415-770-1061 www.wikiedu.org *Please note my new email address and update your contacts accordingly: lianna(a)wikiedu.org <lianna(a)wikiedu.org>*

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Wikimania Pre-Conference session on badges
by Charles Matthews 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Another session I said I'd use this list to publicise is on badges: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/Badges,_W… This is now a scheduled 1 hour session for August 7, and the facilitator is presumed to be Stevie Benton of Wikimedia UK. The page itself is not a report on the workshop discussion last Sunday that opened up the topic. The understanding of the participants in the small group was that the Mozilla Open Badges specification allows things other than email addresses as identifiers of persons. It happens that an email address is the default, but the limitation is more custom than compulsion. So in theory a badge could be awarded to a Wikimedia account. The intention therefore is that interested parties should debate the topic. Email is still going to be involved, in that the badge system operates by sending out "claim codes" to those awarded badges. It is fairly obvious that pseudonymous people on the projects would need a clear understanding of the consequences of claiming a badge. I know also that Stevie is interested in the practical, badgemaking side, and has been talking to Mozilla about this aspect. Charles

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Wikimania Pre-Conference day on reuse of VLE material
by Charles Matthews 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

I'm new to this list, so hello all. I'm writing in support of a proposal for a day-long event based around the potential for reuse of Wikimedia UK Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Moodle site hosted at http://moodle.wikimedia.org.uk/ and requires account creation (it is also in beta right now: you can apply to Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk> if you'd like to help review it - should be done by Wikimania). What the proposed Education Pre-Conference day, either on 6th or 7th August ahead of Wikimania, is intended to do is to concentrate on possible reuses of the content. The text content, in rough form, is posted to ModuleWiki, i.e. https://modulewiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page so that there is an easy way to get a rough idea of the scope of the site. There are also images, around 400 quiz questions, and a quite intense use of resource links to English Wikipedia manual and FAQ pages. Content is all CC-by-SA. The intended focus on the day would be (a) subsets useful for particular education and training to be identified, copied out and modified; (b) translations made and potential translations identified; (c) Quiz material reused. The page for the event is https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/VLE_conte… which needs work, clearly: please bear with me as I have three proposals arising from the weekend that need attention. Let me explain more about (c). There is a tool authored by Magnus Manske called Wikisoba: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/wikisoba.html and it is an elegant lightweight way to author quizzes, using wiki page sections. The quiz material "locked up" in Moodle can certainly be reused using this tool, via wiki pages, so that a quiz then exists in a link to Wikimedia Labs. Example I showed yesterday at the "Future of Education Workshop" related to the Wikimania venue: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/wikisoba.html#module=User%3ACharles%20… Anyone, I claim, can learn the coding easily: that one is based on the wikitext of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews/Barbican_quiz which will be all the tutorial some people need. The 400 quiz questions on the WMUK VLE can obviously be reused in other contexts, the Wikisoba tool is fun to work with because you get quick results, and I hope we could get quite a ways in this direction on the day. Charles

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Education Digest, Vol 37, Issue 21
by Vahid Masrour 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Could you please share a link where the news on Serbia's Ministry of education including the use of Wiki tools was published? (in English, French or Spanish). I can't find any. Thanks, Vahid. @@@ @@@ @@@ Vahid Masrour Voluntario Wikimedia Ecuador http://www.wikimediaecuador.org/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ecuador Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+VahidMasrour/ <https://plus.google.com/+VahidMasrour/posts> Skype: vahidmasrour2 Twitter: @vahidm <http://twitter.com/#!/vahidm> Cel: +593 999.044.027 @@@ @@@ @@@ On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:08 AM, <education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Education mailing list submissions to > education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > education-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Education digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools > in Serbia (Mina Theofilatou) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:08:02 +0300 > From: "Mina Theofilatou" <theoth(a)otenet.gr> > To: "Wikimedia Education" <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary > and secondary schools in Serbia > Message-ID: <2571EF4317BB4748AD4B06B216E41FCA@minaPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > And an encyclopedia we should add. That's probably the best argument I've > ever heard on this issue. > > Mina > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andrew Leung > To: Wikimedia Education > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary > and secondary schools in Serbia > > > One counter-argument that you can make is that a dictionary used in > school would have some dirty words that are not appropriate for school > children, yet you don't see those definitions being blacked out by > permanent marker or having the entire page ripped out because it contained > those words. > > Andrew > > > "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up." > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:21:49 +0200 > From: gabriel(a)thullen.com > To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary > and secondary schools in Serbia > > > Like I said before, great job for both Israel and Serbia ! > > > There is one very important issue that we (as WM Chapters) need to > address, now that Wikipedia editing will be part of the official school > curriculum. How do we answer teachers or parents raising concerns about the > so-called "adult" material found on Wikipedia ? Some of it is downright > porn, and we (as Chapters) have to be able to answer these concerns. > > > [[:fr:Catégorie:Position sexuelle]] = [[:en:Category:Sex positions]] = > other interwikis > > or > > Commons: Category:Wiki-Sexuality Images > > > > The Geneva education department has an Internet filter that blocks some > of the articles on the English wiki, for example > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingering_(sexual_act) is blocked, but does not > filter the French wiki fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doigtage. Obviously, the web > filter companies are US (aka English speaking), so they may or may not > filter other language Wikipedia pages. What we absolutely should avoid is > this type of web filtering, and certainly not such filtering done by > separate countries. > > Please note that I have always been opposed to censorship in general and > opposed to censoring Wikimedia in particular. The issue has been raised a > few times over the past few years, and I have always been able to provide > adequate answers to the parents or school officials. But now that Wikipedia > editing is a part of the official curriculum, these questions need a more > "official" answer as well. Information should be freely available to all, > even so-called "adult" information. As a school teacher using the web in > class, I have to keep a watch on the web sites the students browse and > discuss with them how to deal with inappropriate web sites that slip > through the filters. I do the same when my students start surfing on sex-ed > related Wikipedia articles... > > > I can just imagine the uproar in Israel when one or the other of the > more conservative religious groups finds out the kind of articles young > students are subjected to in class... I say that for Israel, but the same > uproar will be possible in some of the Swiss Cantons when Wikipedia editing > becomes an official part of their curriculum (each Canton has its own > curriculum, some Cantons include religious education, some do not, and so > on). We need, at the very least, a set of arguments we can use to defend > Wikipedia. For the moment, nobody has said anything, probably because > adults are usually not very curious. Our kids, on the other hand, tend to > explore a lot more... > > > Anyway, that was some food for thought. I am looking forward to learning > about how you will cope with that kind of issue, I know that the same > problem might arise some day here in Switzerland. > > > > Gabe > > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Vojtěch Dostál < > vojtech.dostal(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote: > > Below is my Wednesday e-mail which was denied from the conversation > because I sent it from an incorrect adress: > > --- > > > Congratulations to Israel and Serbia! > > > Now comes the tough job for you, though! You have to prove to the > public & to the teachers that Wikipedia is actually worth having in the > school curriculum. The worst scenario is teachers and parents going crazy > about the latest government's invention. You should really make Wikipedia > as beneficial to the students as possible, and you also need to prepare the > community for an enormous workload! > > > Not an easy job, but worth working for! > > > Good luck both of you, and I will be looking forward to the first > results. > > Vojtěch Dostál > > vice-chair > > Wikimedia Czech Republic > > > > > 2014-06-11 8:52 GMT+02:00 Oona Castro <oonacastro(a)gmail.com>: > > > excellent news! congratulations! > > > > Did you guys see Israel is also to get Wikipedia included in the > curriculum of public schools? Sorry for crossposting in case it has been > shared here: > http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=18059 > > > I'm really excited to hear and learn more about these initiatives, > though I'm really concerned about our limitations in the Brazilian > education system. > > > > Oona > > > > > On 11 June 2014 03:42, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh(a)nhasive.com> wrote: > > Wow..excellent news Mile! > Congratulations.. > > -- > > Nurunnaby Chowdhury | @nhasive > > Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia | User: Nhasive > > Member, IEG, WMF > > Ambassador, OK Bangladesh > > Sent from my iPhone device > > > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Great news, Mile! > Looking forward to seeing you in London and hear some more, :-) > Shani. > > On 11 Jun 2014 01:31, "Jens Best" <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de> > wrote: > > That's really great news. Congratulations to all people > involved in preparing and realizing this important success. > > > best regards > > > Jens Best > > > -- > Präsidium - Board of Trustees > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > web: http://www.wikimedia.de > mail: jens.best(a)wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien > Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts > Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als > gemeinnützig > anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, > Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > > > 2014-06-10 23:13 GMT+02:00 Mile Kiš <milens(a)vikimedija.org>: > > Hello everyone! > I am honored to inform you that several months of > integrating Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia has > finally paid off! > > > After the Ministry has prescribed that from September 2014 > all students of the second year of secondary school curriculum must study > wiki tools, Institute for the Improvement of knowledge and education has > included a course on Wikipedia in its catalog of programs of continuous > professional development of teachers, professors and other school > personnel. We got accreditation for two years. Not a lot applicants got > accreditation. > > > > This course will start in December. > > > > > > > first challenge we successfully crossed :) next will come. > > > I started writing blog post about this and hope it will be > ready on 20 June. > > > If you have some questions I will be happy to answer you :) > > > > > > > Mile Kiš > > > Vikimedija Srbije - rs.wikimedia.org - > 00381 (0)60 7 454 772 > > > "Zamislite svet u kome svaka osoba ima slobodan pristup > celokupnom ljudskom znanju. To je ono na čemu mi radimo." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > --- > Αυτό το email είναι απαλλαγμένο από ιούς και κακόβουλο λογισμικό, επειδή > είναι ενεργή η προστασία avast! 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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia
by Vojtěch Dostál 21 Jun '14

21 Jun '14

Below is my Wednesday e-mail which was denied from the conversation because I sent it from an incorrect adress: --- Congratulations to Israel and Serbia! Now comes the tough job for you, though! You have to prove to the public & to the teachers that Wikipedia is actually worth having in the school curriculum. The worst scenario is teachers and parents going crazy about the latest government's invention. You should really make Wikipedia as beneficial to the students as possible, and you also need to prepare the community for an enormous workload! Not an easy job, but worth working for! Good luck both of you, and I will be looking forward to the first results. Vojtěch Dostál vice-chair Wikimedia Czech Republic 2014-06-11 8:52 GMT+02:00 Oona Castro <oonacastro(a)gmail.com>: > >> excellent news! congratulations! >> >> Did you guys see Israel is also to get Wikipedia included in the >> curriculum of public schools? Sorry for crossposting in case it has been >> shared here: >> http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=18059 >> >> I'm really excited to hear and learn more about these initiatives, though >> I'm really concerned about our limitations in the Brazilian education >> system. >> >> Oona >> >> >> On 11 June 2014 03:42, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh(a)nhasive.com> wrote: >> >>> Wow..excellent news Mile! >>> Congratulations.. >>> >>> -- >>> Nurunnaby Chowdhury | @nhasive >>> Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia | User: Nhasive >>> Member, IEG, WMF >>> Ambassador, OK Bangladesh >>> Sent from my iPhone device >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Great news, Mile! >>>> Looking forward to seeing you in London and hear some more, :-) >>>> Shani. >>>> On 11 Jun 2014 01:31, "Jens Best" <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: >>>> >>>>> That's really great news. Congratulations to all people involved in >>>>> preparing and realizing this important success. >>>>> >>>>> best regards >>>>> >>>>> Jens Best >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Präsidium - Board of Trustees >>>>> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. >>>>> web: http://www.wikimedia.de >>>>> mail: jens.best <http://goog_17221883>@wikimedia.de >>>>> >>>>> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. >>>>> V. >>>>> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts >>>>> Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig >>>>> anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, >>>>> Steuernummer 27/681/51985. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2014-06-10 23:13 GMT+02:00 Mile Kiš <milens(a)vikimedija.org>: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello everyone! >>>>>> I am honored to inform you that several months of integrating >>>>>> Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia has finally paid off! >>>>>> >>>>>> After the Ministry has prescribed that from September 2014 all >>>>>> students of the second year of secondary school curriculum *must >>>>>> study wiki tools*, Institute for the Improvement of knowledge and >>>>>> education has included a course on Wikipedia in its catalog of programs of >>>>>> continuous professional development of teachers, professors and other >>>>>> school personnel. We got accreditation for two years. Not a lot applicants >>>>>> got accreditation. >>>>>> >>>>>> This course will start in December. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> first challenge we successfully crossed :) next will come. >>>>>> >>>>>> I started writing blog post about this and hope it will be ready on >>>>>> 20 June. >>>>>> >>>>>> If you have some questions I will be happy to answer you :) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Mile Kiš >>>>>> >>>>>> Vikimedija Srbije - rs.wikimedia.org - >>>>>> 00381 (0)60 7 454 772 >>>>>> >>>>>> „Zamislite svet u kome svaka osoba ima slobodan pristup celokupnom >>>>>> ljudskom znanju. To je ono na čemu mi radimo.“ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Education mailing list >>>>>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Education mailing list >>>>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Education mailing list >>>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Education mailing list >>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Education mailing list >> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >> >

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This Month In Education: June 2014: Volume 3, Issue 5
by The 'This Month In Education' Team 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

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inviting Stanford into WEP
by James Salsman 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Given http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/may/dschool-undergrad-reimagined-050514.… and https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/OpenKnowledge/Fall2014/about Who wants to try to invite Stanford to join the WEP? I bet the guy from CSLU who was willing to host their Wikimania bid would help. Best regards, James Salsman

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Request for interviews from education program leaders
by Pine W 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Hi all, In consultation with The_Ed17, I'm starting work on a series of Signpost reports regarding meta issues. One of the subjects I have in the queue is the education program. I'd like to interview the following people: 1. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in Serbia 2. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in Israel 3. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in Mexico 4. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in the US or Canada, preferably a regional ambassador or professor 5. Someone involved in the Global Education program at WMF 6. Someone at the Wiki Ed Foundation If you're in one of these groups, you speak English at at least the EN-2 level, and you're willing to be interviewed or know who a good person to interview would be, please email me off-list. Interviews will probably take place in late June or sometime in July, and hopefully be no more than half an hour each. The goal is to get a broad survey of Wikipedia's use in education in this Signpost article. The article will probably be published in mid to late July. Thanks! Pine

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Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Public schools to integrate Wikipedia into curriculum
by Charles Andrès 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

I haven’t been able to send this message to both mailing list, because of the security settings of WMF server Charles > > I think this is a top priority and we should really focus on having a central document with ALL this type of initiative, including University or school level only. > > What I see in Switzerland is that the argument « look they have done that » is not an efficient incentive, because people answered you « yes but we are different ». > > Whereas if we are able to show all the type of « wikipedia integration into curriculum » it will be more easy to convince people. > > In the meantime, having case studies to illustrate is not enough if we do not have the documentation ready to support the actual integration of wikipedia, we cannot move forward. > > In this sense the WMF has done a great job with several brochures, but obviously they are in English and we do not have an efficient way to translate and localized them. > > Due to the volunteer nature of our movement, we are always struggling between waiting the community to translate or pushing the staff to do it. > > The fully centralize model wouldn’t be good because we would lack the « localization » part, but a fully decentralize model is not good too, it means repeating the same effort in different place, so a waste of money and/or time. > > I do not have a magical answer, but I deeply believe the availability of the documentation in as much as language possible is a main challenge, and we need to adress it. > > > Charles > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > I use this email for mailing list only. > > Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer > "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – > www.wikimedia.ch > Skype: charles.andres.wmch > IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch > > Le 10 juin 2014 à 20:46, Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit : > >> Does anyone know of any other nation-level or regional-level efforts like this anywhere? I think it's worth documenting to inspire other education systems to do the same. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Bishakha Datta <bdatta(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Really exciting development with huge potential. You guys are always breaking new ground, Itzik. >> >> And bravo, Jan-Bart! >> >> Best >> Bishakha >> >> On Jun 10, 2014 11:52 PM, "Lila Tretikov" <lila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> This is wonderful -- I wonder if this is something we can knowledge-share with across chapters. >> >> Is there a way that this program will be measured/analyzed? >> >> Thanks for sharing, >> Lila >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: >> I saw this earlier and didn't get around to sharing with this list. What I did want to say is that this is a fantastic piece of work and well done to everyone. In my mind, at least, this is something of a gold standard ambition for our movement. It shows the content on the projects is of an educational quality, that it is taken seriously and that the value of the projects as serious educational tools is being recognised. >> >> Many congrats to everyone, especially to WMIL and to Jan-Bart! >> >> Stevie >> >> >> On 10 June 2014 18:45, Itzik Edri <itzik(a)infra.co.il> wrote: >> Following Jan-Bart's visit in Israel. Published today on the print & online version and here is the English version: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=18059 >> >> We'll later publish a blog post about it (we are waiting to the social-media team response). >> >> Public schools to integrate Wikipedia into curriculum >> >> Education Minister Shay Piron meets with Wikimedia Foundation Chairman Jan-Bart de Vreede, announces that the state's public schools will instruct teachers on how to teach students to write content for Wikipedia in Hebrew and other languages. >> >> Yael Branovsky and Israel Hayom Staff >> >> Online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is a known research shortcut for students seeking online information and sources for their written assignments. But now, a new initiative promoted by the Education Ministry is seeking to have Israeli students produce Wikiepdia entries themselves. >> >> The program was suggested last week during a meeting between Education Minister Shay Piron and Wikimedia Foundation Chairman Jan-Bart de Vreede, with the Education Ministry expressing interest in integrating Wikipedia into its "meaningful learning" initiative. >> >> A statement posted on the Education Ministry's website read, "Meaningful language learning is characterized by its being active, constructive, authentic and cooperative. Learners are motivated when they have the opportunity to engage in activities that they feel are useful in their lives." >> >> To integrate Wikipedia, history, geography or science teachers would undergo a professional training program that would instruct them on how to help students complete Wikipedia entries. >> >> In addition, the ministry is weighing whether to allow students who speak foreign languages or whose mother tongue is not Hebrew to write entries on Wikipedia sites in other languages, the goal of which is also to help improve Israel's image abroad. >> >> The Education Ministry stressed that the initiative is a win-win situation for all sides. On the one hand, students will help broaden the breadth of Hebrew Wikipedia's entries, and on the other hand students will be able to develop the ability to research, write and edit informative articles, helping to both filter out wrong information and verify what has already been written. >> >> Worldwide, the program marks the largest joint initiative between public education and the Wikipedia movement. >> >> "It is important that the education system in Israel leads in innovation, and this joint effort with Wikipedia is a wonderful opportunity to think outside the box, which lets students in Israel do impactful things that others can enjoy," Piron said. >> >> De Vreede praised Israel for championing the integration of Wikipedia into the education system and academia. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfcc-l mailing list >> Wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Stevie Benton >> Head of External Relations >> Wikimedia UK >> +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 >> @StevieBenton >> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. 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Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Israel’s Ministry of Education & Wikimedia Israel Agree On New, Unique Initiative
by Pine W 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

I'm forwarding this good news from WikimediaAnnounce-l that mysteriously wasn't received by Wikimedia-l. I'm sending this to Wikimedia-l and Education-l. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il> Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:58 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Israel’s Ministry of Education & Wikimedia Israel Agree On New, Unique Initiative To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org (Posted also on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/10/israels-ministry-of-education-wikimed… ) An agreement was met in a meeting between Rabbi Shai Piron, Israel’s Education Minister, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Itzik Edri, Chair of the Wikimedia Israel Board and Michal Lester, Executive Director of Wikimedia Israel, regarding a shared cooperation with Wikimedia Israel in the framework of the ministry’s school curricula in the coming years. Through the planned cooperation, history, geography and science teachers will receive special professional training to instruct students on how to contribute to new or incomplete Wikipedia articles for which information is lacking or inadequate. The Education Ministry will also examine the possibility of integrating Wikipedia writing assignments in the teaching of research and community involvement. They will also consider having students who speak additional languages (primarily English and Russian) write Wikipedia articles about Israel in those particular languages. Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron said, “It is important to us that the education system in Israel leads in innovation and cooperating with Wikipedia is a wonderful opportunity to think outside the box and enable students in Israel to do things that make a difference from which others can also benefit.” Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees said, “Israel is today among the leading countries in the integration of Wikipedia in the education system and academia. I hope our joint work model will also serve as an example to other education systems around the world.” In the framework of cooperation that is already in place between Wikimedia Israel and the Ministry of education, several pilot projects are being conducted. The projects involve teacher training in good Wikipedia usage, article composition, Wikipedia article writing by gifted high school students and the teaching of proper Wikipedia usage to elementary schoolchildren. It is worth mentioning that through cooperation with academics in a variety of universities and colleges throughout Israel, hundreds of articles are written each year by students in courses. Thus students write Wikipedia articles as part of their degrees, sometimes even in lieu of exams or final papers. The Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University recently conducted a special 2-credit course on the subject of Wikipedia and medicine. Survey results published last week as part of Wikipedia Academy 2014 Israel revealed that 84% of the Israeli public relies heavily on Wikipedia and 74% say that it provides all the information they need. Over one third of the population expressed interest in learning to write for Wikipedia. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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