On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Thomas Larsen larsen.thomas.h@gmail.com wrote:
Admittedly, I haven't perused the entire article very thoroughly. However, I am /very/ skeptical about teaching primary school pupils how to blog at all, and I am strongly opposed to Wikipedia and Twitter taking the place of history in primary schools.
To take a contrary view, teaching proper use of Wikipedia has the potential to *improve* history in primary schools.
How so?
Primarily in teaching how *not* to use it!
Naturally primary (and early secondary) education should include teaching how to use the Internet in learning. Given Wikipedia's prominence, it would of course be correct for such teaching to include the proper use of Wikipedia. Students might be encouraged not to regurgitate whole paragraphs from Wikipedia.
Furthermore, there is the potential that teaching students to question Wikipedia could lead to their being more disposed to question other sources, which is obviously very useful in the study of any subject (and supremely history).
Sam