I strongly discourage my students when they want to translate articles.
However, these are the rules of the game, so, if they insist, they may do
so. My two objections are:
- There is no guarantee that the original articles are good enough - so we
have to come back to criticism exercises to evaluate them, thus going away
from the intended translation exercise.
- It is a priceless asset to have different cultures stating their own
views on the same subjects. Here I'm thinking about non-technical articles,
mainly.
(Not to say that I've spotted lots of cases of lazy Google Translator work).
However, I do agree that the goals of this Mexico project are also
important for the students. Just adding my 2 cents, then.
Juliana.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:09 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:44 AM
Subject: Wikipedia Signpost article
To: Teachers Wikipedia <teaching-with-wikipedia(a)listserv.olemiss.edu>
Pharos has put something I wrote as a draft article for the Wikipedia
Signpost to push for an education column in the publication.
Please take a look at the draft here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_report and feel free
to participate!
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