Hi Felix - not much info here about how long you have in terms of teaching time but In terms of content I’d suggest you provide an intro to how editing works, and also (very briefly) the other language Wikipedia’s. These are things that the students are unlikely to know about so add real value. I would also focus time on open licensing - what it is & why it matters to the site. Again, a topic that they are unlikely to have much knowledge of that's both practically and conceptual useful in terms of their digital literacy.

It sounds like a great project and an amazing opportunity!

The other thing that I would make sure of is to pre test with teachers - they don’t need to be from the same school but they do need to understand the age group. Pitch and appropriate level content is the thing people most often get wrong working with children & young people - you need expertise here from people who are teaching your age group day in day out. Ideally, have someone trial while you observe or trial yourself and have staff feedback. You won’t get delivery and content right first time - good teachers are very skilled at improvisation, adaptation on the fly and iterating both for specific groups of learners to improve learning outcomes - something they share with Wikimedians who teach & train adults.  An ideal would be for you to develop your content as a stand alone resource (and openly licence it) - you can publish this online along with your teaching notes and that way teachers and communities around the world get to benefit from and build on your work.

Hope this helps a little and the best of luck!  Josie

On 31 Aug 2018, at 00:05, Felix Nartey flixtey@gmail.com wrote:

Hello All,

A  middle school has approached us to run a Wikipedia program for them. We are considering training the students on how to effectively use Wikipedia as well as hinting them on the ability to correct basic things such as typos and grammar.  We also intend to teach them how to play the Wikidata game.

Is our approach good? or what alternative activities we can have with the school.

Thanks in advance for your comments or suggestions.

Regards,

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