Did you guys try subject/stream specific article adoption? I was just
thinking about how an average student who finishes bachelors and masters
writes at least 20 essays and research papers that don't get published.
They are just graded and forgotten. This means that all students are forced
to go through a range of material. Wouldn't it be nice if you asked them to
retrieve those and adopt stubs? Just a thought. Also, I'd love to have a
copy of a draft/report that lists the entire chronology and conclusion of
the program.
Warmly
Regards
Noopur
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Another strategy that we can adopt while doing
this program in India is,
about the selection of articles for editing. We can ask students to
contribute to articles that they are interested in, rather than of all of
them editing the articles on the same topic.
This is related to something I've been thinking about.
As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were
about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and
about having fun while learning.
In practice, did it remain like that? Going by what I read, it sounded
like many of the students were under high stress to turn in these wikipedia
assignments to their teachers - and used every possible shortcut in the
book. (Exactly what I would have done in my student days).
I may be totally off-base on this, but am curious, so would appreciate
some info.
My question is: if this becomes a high stress exam type situ, is the
student likely to a)either see it as fun b)go back to it later for fun? In
which case, is this student likely to become a prospective wikipedia
editor, or is this student going to treat this as a one-time thing and
never want to do this ever again? (Given relationship with stress, exams,
teachers, marks)?
Also - larger related qs: is the aim of the India Ed program to increase
article content on wp (which can be done short-term) or to increase the
number of editors? Or both?
Cheers,
Bishakha
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