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-Wik…
Best, Josie
From: Anna Koval <akoval(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Josie Fraser <josie(a)josiefraser.com>om>; Wikimedia Education
<education(a)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
[1]
http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889[2] http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/18/link.link11[3] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Government_Partnerships#Unite…
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Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 x 6729Skype: annakoval.wiki
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, 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
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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(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
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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