Hi all, 

I saw this article come across my Facebook feed about your project: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Scrapped-Nonsense-30-000-plan-teach-Leicester/story-26728515-detail/story.html

Thats a real shame, if the project is completely tabled. Is there anything we can do to help? What is needed most to keep this as an opportunity? As I said previously, such a project has considerable positive outcomes on a Global scale, and I would hate to see it tabled. 

Cheers, 

Alex Stinson

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Josie Fraser <josie@josiefraser.com> wrote:
Hi Anna, 

Many thanks for your kind words. Yes, the schools building programme capital implementation grant is primarily funded by UK central government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Schools_for_the_Future), and delivered by local government (Leicester City Council). The DigiLit Leicester project has been developed in partnership with De Montfort University and 23 local school communities http://www.digilitleic.com/). 

On a less positive note, the council were criticised in the Mail on Sunday this week for supporting the project: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123142/30-000-teach-pupils-use-Wikipedia-Fury-council-pays-expert-children-critically-engage-online-encyclopaedia.html 

Best, Josie 
 


 
 



From: Anna Koval <akoval@wikimedia.org>
To: Josie Fraser <josie@josiefraser.com>; Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, 12 June 2015, 19:32

Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipdia information literacy resources for secondary school/K12 learners

Hi Josie,

Thanks so much for sharing this. It sounds very interesting. 

I was curious to learn more, so I Googled "BSF ICT Innovation and Learning Group consultation" (which was mentioned in the blog post [1] ) and found this article in The Guardian [2] which references: "The government's £45bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme to rebuild or refurbish all secondary schools in England within the next 10-15 years..."

My question is: would you consider this to be a government partnership of sorts? I believe I would. If you agree, I'd like to add this to the Government Partnerships page on Outreach:Education. [3] :)

Thank you again for your leadership on this project and for sharing it with the global education community.

All the best,

Anna 

[3] 

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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Josie Fraser <josie@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
 
 
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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...
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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

From: Alex Stinson <sadads@gmail.com>
To: Josie Fraser <josie@josiefraser.com>; Wikimedia Education <education@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@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

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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