Dear all,
I was a bit distanced from Wikipedia, a while after being the first
president of Wikimedia Uruguay. I suffered a stroke; I was at the ICU for
70 days, and hospitalized for a whole year, but I've recovered, and back in
charge of the Wikipedia Education Program in the CEIBAL Plan.
The Wikipedia Education Program is entering its second stage, it seeks
reaching teachers in secondary education and languages from around the
country, and teaching them on how to work in education with Wikipedia, in
various Wikipedias, in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English .
The project was submitted before CEIBAL by me, and has won the support of
authorities at a national level; mainly because Wikipedia extends the work
in the classroom beyond physical boundaries. It serves the whole community,
while also benefitting students, who, working in a collaborative
environment, learn from the criticism and contributions of all the
community. We all know that knowledge is a collective construction, what
better way to build it than Wikipedia.
CEIBAL provides all students and teachers in the country with a notebook
and internet access, a perfect plainfield to add Wikipedia to, and that’s
what I’m working on. Moreover, I have already included Wikipedia in the
Communication Sciences Program of our country, under the slogan "Yes,
Wikipedia may have mistakes, learn how to correct them."
Best regards,
Fernando da Rosa
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Fernando da Rosa
fernando.darosa(a)gmail.com