Different people have different favoured learning styles. Some will copy others, some will
ask others, and some actually go and read the instructions. Presumably some pay attention
to lectures.
In order to make Wikipedia open to all goodfaith editors it is helpful to support all
learning styles. That means encouraging use of meaningful edit summaries to make it easier
to learn by copying others, running wiki surgeries and informal meetups so people can ask
each other how to fix things, making the help pages clear comprehensive and up to date,
and yes having lectures available to attend or watch on the internet.
Those of us who favour some learning styles over others would do well to try and remember
that others may favour different learning styles. And when I fall asleep in a lecture it
is probably time for a live example, or a nudge from my neighbour.
Jonathan
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From: Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of
Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 2:20 am
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] What instructors think about teaching with Wikipedia AFTER
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Young people in particular don't tend to look for Help or Instructions. They tend to
just jump in. They are more likely to want "live chat" help when they are in the
midst of their problem.
Kerry
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Jesús Tramullas
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] What instructors think about teaching with Wikipedia AFTER
having tried it?
Dear colleagues:
I work with Wikipedia in classroom since 2015-2016
(
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/WikiDoc,_Univers…).
Of course, I agree with the common problems about this kind of approach...
..but now I'm working on a specific area, asking the students: As new editor, What do
you think about the help pages in Wikipedia? Have you used them? Are they helpful? Are
they readable? Are they understandable?
So, my approach is to analyze the "technical documentation", identify problems
and propose improvements.
Cheers,
Jesús
--
"Investigación básica es lo que hago cuando no sé lo que estoy haciendo."
"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."
Wernher von Braun (1957)
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