Dear Education enthusiasts,
Just a reminder: you're in time to contribute to the January edition of the
Newsletter (until January 20th)
All you have to do is go to https://outreach.wikimedia.
org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom and share what you're doing, what
you're learning, a couple of pictures, a link to a slideshow or a resource
that works really well in your context, even a link to a news that covers
some aspect of Wikipedia+Education... for the rest of the community to
benefit from!
Have a great 2018 and Read you soon!
Vahid.
Note: Did you miss the December edition? It's here: https://outreach.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear Wikipedia+Education Enthusiasts,
Your Education Newsletter with news from the month of December is available:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/December_2017/
Enjoy learning about:
- Serbia working with new faculties
- Dashboard updates
- Macedonia student camp
- 2 News from Greece! Online training for teachers, and a High school
project.
- Armenia opening a new field for work
- Switzerland: a project that reached over 500 11-14 years old students,
in collaboration with a faculty of pedagogy
- Malaysia: participation at an education summit
- Online: a post with a 12 references that should change any educators'
mind regarding the use of Wikipedia in an educational setting
- Ireland: an academic conference on Wikipedia and Education (there's
time for submissions)
- Harvard: a video on a research paper that demonstrates how having
scientific knowledge on Wikipedia impacts directly on advancement in
science. Let's make sure every phd program manager sees this video (or
reads the paper)!
Thanks to all the contributors that made this edition happen! (maybe you're
next?)
Have a great 2018!
Vahid.
PS: Have you taken a look at the criteria that the Education Team at WMF
are considering to endorse grant requests? they're available for your
comments here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/November_2017/A_Proposal…
(let's use that Talk page!)
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https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Hi Olayinka,
Thanks for your request for review. Are you are developer? I have copied
Felix Nartey and Olaniyan Olushola who are members of of the African
Developer group perhaps they could help. I will send you a personal mail
later.
Regards,
Isaac Olatunde.
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> Dear Education Enthusiasts,
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> A couple of announcements for the December edition of our Newsletter:
>
> - The deadline for submitting articles is extended to December 31 (in
> consideration to the holidays that many parts of the world will be going
> through in the last week of this month)
> - The publication of the December issue is set for January 5th.
> - As usual, you can start working on your contribution on
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> We really look forward to your contributions! (Feel free to email me if you
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> In case you haven't yet, the November edition is there for your delight:
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> Many thanks to those that contributed to this edition. This is how we all
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>
> Also, please remember that your thoughts and contributions to the
> discussion of the criteria to endorse an education program proposal (and by
> the same token, key pointers on what to include in your next APG/MYG/Rapid
> grant) are very welcome:
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/
> November_2017/A_Proposal_for_Education_Team_endorsement_criteria
> (the Talk Page has more details and room for plenty comments)
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> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:54:31 +0100
> From: Peter Olayinka <peterolayinka97(a)gmail.com>
> To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Your review and recommendation is
> important to me
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> Hello,
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> I am Peter Olayinka,
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> I have been working on this application for a while now, built with
> python/django. And i ll really love to get your reviews and recommendation
> for improvement sake.
>
> Quizboot (www.quizboot.com) is a social learning platform where you can
> get
> engaged with quizzes like brain teasers, riddles, past questions, interview
> questions, etc. for fun and educational purpose.
>
> Also you get to create your own quizzes then share and challenge your
> friends with it, see what they scored and just have fun.
>
> You could also chat with your friends, comment on quizzes and follow your
> favorite quiz creator.
>
> you could send me your review directly on the platform. **Search for
> peterolayinka**
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Hello,
I am Peter Olayinka,
I have been working on this application for a while now, built with
python/django. And i ll really love to get your reviews and recommendation
for improvement sake.
Quizboot (www.quizboot.com) is a social learning platform where you can get
engaged with quizzes like brain teasers, riddles, past questions, interview
questions, etc. for fun and educational purpose.
Also you get to create your own quizzes then share and challenge your
friends with it, see what they scored and just have fun.
You could also chat with your friends, comment on quizzes and follow your
favorite quiz creator.
you could send me your review directly on the platform. **Search for
peterolayinka**
Thank you.
Dear Education Enthusiasts,
A couple of announcements for the December edition of our Newsletter:
- The deadline for submitting articles is extended to December 31 (in
consideration to the holidays that many parts of the world will be going
through in the last week of this month)
- The publication of the December issue is set for January 5th.
- As usual, you can start working on your contribution on
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom
We really look forward to your contributions! (Feel free to email me if you
have questions on how to participate)
In case you haven't yet, the November edition is there for your delight:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
Many thanks to those that contributed to this edition. This is how we all
learn together!
Also, please remember that your thoughts and contributions to the
discussion of the criteria to endorse an education program proposal (and by
the same token, key pointers on what to include in your next APG/MYG/Rapid
grant) are very welcome:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/November_2017/A_Proposal…
(the Talk Page has more details and room for plenty comments)
Best Regards,
Vahid.
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Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear Education Enthusiasts,
Welcome to the latest edition of the Education Newsletter! You can find it
here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2017
For November, we have very interesting contributions:
- France's experience with high school contests
- Jordan's program at Hashemite University
- In Brasil, a team is exploring how far they can take Wikiversity to
use it as a MOOC engine
- Wikidata + Education programs: hard to imagine? Learn how they do it
in the UK!
- From the Basque country, learn how they prioritized articles to
be created for the needs of their high school students
- News from the Education Program in Thailand
- Though it suffered from terrible earthquakes, that did not stop
content editing in Mexico
- In Serbia, an editathon was dedicated to a specific social issue:
human trafficking
- What can be done in schools that have no Internet access? There's an
experience in Africa
The education Team also wants to invite all education programs enthusiasts
to participate in a conversation about the criteria to endorse Education
Programs, please share your thoughts on the Talk page!
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2017
While you're reading all those exciting news, think about sharing your
experience next month! All it takes is 3-4 paragraphs describing the
project and what you are learning from participating in it, and preferably
a picture or two.
Also, you are most welcome to join our Facebook group [1], and if you like
Twitter, you can also livetweet events to @wikieduprogram []
Have a wonderful month!
[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram
[2] https://twitter.com/Wikieduprogram
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vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear colleagues,
16 y.o. Timerkhan Shaykhutdinov of Zelenodolsk obtained his high school director approval to work on improving https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Галимҗан_Ибраһимов article instead of writing a regular research essay for Tatar language and literature class. Photos from his presentation of the results in front of his class are available on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/352291514949017/permalink/887636508081179/
This is the first such precedent in Tatar-speaking world, in the Republic of Tatarstan and, possibly, even within the Russian Federation. I'm obviously proud to have been mentoring the guy within Selet WikiSchool project https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Сәләт_викимәктәбе
regards,
farhad
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Hi all,
We wanted to remind you about the Case Studies campaign from the Programs
team at the Wikimedia Foundation: our hope is to collect case studies of
program or activities that haven’t been documented before. We hope to
collect more representatives case studies for Education, GLAM and other
program areas to better support and inspire other program leaders! To learn
more see: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_studies
If you would like to learn more about what might make great Case Studies,
or if you want some help thinking through what might be in a good case
study, we are holding office hours on Tuesday:
-
1800 MYT/1000 UTC on November 28:
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies_utc0800
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1200 EST/1600 UTC on November 28:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies
<https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies?hceid=YXN0aW5…>
If you can’t attend these office hours, but would like help thinking about
your potential case study, please let us know: astinson(a)wikimedia.org or
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
Hope you share!
Nichole Saad, Education Program Manager
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Hi Mathieu,
I was heartened to read your questions and conclusions:
> If you take that into consideration, how might you even begin to consider
> that there are any consensual ordering possible? ...
> you can not provide a well-order[ing.]
Referring to why I want to offer eligibility in the essay contest to
the top half of student editors, I agree with you that any assessment
of overall student rank from any set of metrics will not be a scalar
value, but a confidence interval or a central tendency and variance.
Therefore, since my actual intent was to offer eligibility to the top
35%, I nominally offer it to the top 50%.
The present value of outcomes is not always equal to nominal values,
e.g. in societies which could die of preventable communicable diseases
arising among the poor and thus would all be better off if the rich
are taxed to pay for the healthcare of the poor -- thereby increasing
the actual wealth of everyone including those whose nominal wealth
decreases -- but the proportion of optimal transfer incidence relative
to the expected amount of charity and philanthropy is another matter
for a future essay proposal.
> what if "the best" essay writer in the pool you are targeting will be on the contrary repelled by such a contest?
That is a risk well worth taking.
> I'm not against fostering the idea of writing orignal essays around and within
> the Wikimedia movement....
> maybe a dedicated project for essays might make some sense.
I am only proposing a periodic contest, to be archived e.g. on Meta. I
look forward to further engagement from the foundations. Back when I
was the only one arguing for market rate Foundation staff salaries,
some of the most fervent opponents were in the Foundation. It is not
uncommon to see people voting against their own interests
occasionally. It's quite common in some parts of the U.S. Thank
goodness the foundations have a higher grade of thinkers.
Best regards,
Jim
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:57 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz
<psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
> Saluton,
>
> To my mind, this whole discussion doesn't make any sense as it is all
> grounded on suspect hypotheses.
>
> First, what do you call an essay? I think that for such a work the author
> must instill selfness in it. As say Montaigne "c’eſt moy que ie peins". If
> you take that into consideration, how might you even begin to consider that
> there are any consensual ordering possible? Actually, a "commissioned essay"
> sounds more like an oxymoron than anything else.
>
> Concerning the proposed subject, I would advise any person considering
> answering such a tricksy question to first question its premises. You might
> even explore the strict opposite question: can any institution ever give
> enough to a person for all the time dedicated into integrating its
> expectations? All this time that nothing will ever give back, and not spent
> in other life experiences that the said institution might not care about but
> that would be far more enjoyable.
>
> So, to answer the last question, that's not simply your dichotomy which is
> false, it's the whole underlying premise set your are pushing that is total
> nonsense. No, you can not provide a well-order relation on any set for any
> property.
>
> Moreover you seems to think that it suffices to drop money to achieve
> attracting "the best possible essay" in the scope of your nonsense contest.
> But what if "the best" essay writer in the pool you are targeting will be on
> the contrary repelled by such a contest?
>
> Now, I'm not against fostering the idea of writing orignal essays around and
> within the Wikimedia movement. Currently, I don't think we have a clear
> dedicated project for that, although I come across some of them which are
> usually stored on Meta, in user namespaces, or on Wikibooks (for example A
> Lecture on the Limits of Human Knowledge). So maybe a dedicated project for
> essays might make some sense.
>
> Eseete,
> mathieu
>
> Le 22/11/2017 à 19:05, James Salsman a écrit :
>
> Thanks, Lucas. I am happy to discuss the idea.
>
> I believe that there is strong evidence against the proposition that
> the best editors are skilled in writing articles but not essays.
>
> LiAnna and Tighe, do you have any reasons to believe that editors
> skilled in composing both articles and essays are not superior to
> editors skilled in articles only? Is there a false dichotomy in
> believing that one or the other could be preferable to both?
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe you should first discuss any contest like this with community and
> then come with a suitable idea.
>
> Your willingness to invest on this is something valuable and should be used
> on a project that fits with WMF goals.
>
> Teles
>
> Em ter, 21 de nov de 2017 às 14:19, Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
> escreveu:
>
> To echo LiAnna and Wiki Education's take, the Wikimedia Foundation's
> education team support activities that get students to contribute to
> Wikimedia projects as part of their learning. While the contexts may vary
> from country to country and classroom to classroom, the students contribute
> according to Wikimedia project norms (neutrality, citations, etc). This
> type of proposed assignment/competition seems out of scope and we could not
> support it on our end either.
>
> Best,
> Tighe
>
> --
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> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
> education.wikimedia.org
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:52 AM, LiAnna Davis <lianna(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:27 AM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
>
> I offer $50 USD first prize and $25 for the runner-up for the best
> twelve paragraph essay on the topic of whether college students are
> likely to pay more in income taxes over their lifetime than the
> present value of the entire amount of their college tuition, room, and
> board expenses.
>
> This contest is open only to the top 50% of participants in the
> Wikimedia Education Program or WikiEd Foundation's student editors.
>
> If there are any objections to this contest, please let me know. If
> there are any reasons it shouldn't be communicated to the eligible,
> please let me know. I ask both foundations to match my award, taking
> the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
>
>
> No. At the Wiki Education Foundation, we focus on teaching students to
> write neutral, fact-based encyclopedia articles instead of essays; our
> asking them to write essays would be counterproductive given the mission
>
> of
>
> our program, our organization, and the Wikimedia movement. We will not
> support this effort, and ask that you do not reach out to them on your
>
> own.
>
> LiAnna
>
>
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