Hi Josie,
I reread the blog post, and am thinking you will want to keep something in
mind for the selection process some:
In my mind, the project at the local level in Liecester to be
replicate-able at scale and, in the words of the call ,"high impact",
requires the availability for this to be digitally native (and preferably
within the Wikimedia ecosystem, whether as an integrated app on Tools Lab
or on Wikipedia like the Wikipedia Adventure): otherwise your investment
has only a limited impact, for a very limited difference in investment (we
are talking on orders of magnitude differences in impact because of the
ready global audience the wikimedia community can offer), could make the
work very hard to translate into other communities/languages/cultural
locations and other audiences. The Wikimedia community, and hundreds of
libraries have already created small activities, guides, and curriculums
that can teach basic digital, research and information literacy around
Wikipedia (thats a relatively common practice, though executed at varying
levels of success); innovation and impact would come from something that
takes the core concept of those activities, and multiplies it beyond
geographic and purely interpersonal communities.
If the testing phase for the tools is largely local, and tailored for a
local impact that's awesome: however, from the more strategic level there
is a lot of room for something like the proposed literacy item to have a
legacy (globally?) by expanding and scaling (and such an activity would fit
within the strategic interests of a number of organizations and volunteer
communities who would spend energy scaling the materials, like The
Wikipedia Library, The Wikipedia Education Program, and advocates for
digital literacy more broadly (i.e. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation);
esp. if the consultants have the expertise in gaming that you identified in
the call). In particular, if the activity could be done on a mobile device:
both the student audience that you are working with and new internet users
in other parts of the world are entering the web via mobile devices.
I would be gladly be available for consultation within my role in the
Wikipedia Library.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Jun 11, 2015 1:36 PM, "Josie Fraser" <josie(a)josiefraser.com> wrote:
Hi Alex, and thanks for the encouraging reply. The
format that the
activities and games take will be determined by the team appointed in
consultation with school staff and young people. They may be web hosted but
not web based for example, and it's likely they will include activities for
groups. We've put up a little more info on our blog: Wikipedia - support
for schools <http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889>
[image: image] <http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889>
Wikipedia - support for schools <http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889>
We are really excited about our latest project, which will produce games
based resources to enhance Year 9 learners (13-14 years old) engagement
with, and understan...
View on
www.digilitleic.com <http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889>
Preview by Yahoo
The Wikipedia Adventure game is great - I'll be sure to pass on the link
and your contact details to the team appointed (if they aren't already
aware of them).
Many thanks! Josie
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*From:* Alex Stinson <sadads(a)gmail.com>
*To:* Josie Fraser <josie(a)josiefraser.com>om>; Wikimedia Education <
education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Sent:* Thursday, 11 June 2015, 16:27
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipdia information literacy
resources for secondary school/K12 learners
Hi Josie,
That sounds like a really interesting project. At the Wikipedia Library,
we have been thinking a lot about readerly literacy in Wikipedia (and hope
to build a portal to expose people to research literacy information), and
the age group that you are targeting these materials for, would be fairly
good for a public audience as well. Will this work product/game based
learning material have to be in an on-wiki format?
It would be awesome if we could distribute it more broadly, while keeping
people on Wikipedia. I am thinking the game-architecture used for the The
Wikipedia Adventure (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure ) would
allow for such a piece of information to be shared with members of the
editing community and become a standard link on things like welcome
templates.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Josie Fraser <josie(a)josiefraser.com>
wrote:
For those of you who haven't seen it, Leicester City Council are currently
tendering for a team to work on a short games based learning project with
schools and 13/14 year olds, to create games to support Wikipedia use and
engagement:
http://www.sourceleicestershire.co.uk/contracts/show/id/12580
<http://t.co/E7ZpK6LjOT>
<http://t.co/E7ZpK6LjOT>
Please do pass on to people you know who the work might suit. For those
outside the UK, the outputs will of course all be shared under an open
licence and I'll post an update to the list.
Best, Josie Fraser
@josiefraser
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