On 6/1/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The school deserves credit for allowing the kids to use Wikipedia. I hope the message gets back to them.
A friend of mine's 13 year old sister uses it so frequently, I don't think she even bothers using any other sources for the myriad of pointless "research projects" she's required to write. I've explained to her the dangers of taking Wikipedia at face value, and the sheer lunacy of attempting to plagiarise it. But mostly I mock her laziness - she's mature enough to know better.
I have to say though, I was a little bit touched when she plagiarised some text I wrote at [[Paris]]. An extremely indirect, 3rd-millennium way of doing someone else's homework for them. If you actually think about the technology that was required for that to happen, well, it's rather mindblowing really.
Steve