In Italy a lot of students use wikipedia for those things. It's a nice
kind of research for the largest part of students (for the rest of
people too) and teachers usually said that! There is no matter to
blame the project(s) of Wikimedia.
Nantas
Da: Rodolfo M Vega <rmvega(a)cs.cmu.edu>
Data: 30 settembre 2009 01.41.49 GMT+02.00
A: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia education
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I think Lars means the copy and paste of information
without student's
process. But this is done with othe online material as well. Again, as
Thomas says, it is in the details how it is done. Wikipedia is an
important source for learning if this is the task of people who use it
as a free source of serious information.
Rodolfo
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/9/29 Lars Aronsson
<lars(a)aronsson.se>se>:
This weekend I learned about the phrase
"Wikipedia education".
Apparently it is used in Swedish ("Wikipedia-undervisning") to
describe the kind of teacher-less lessons where school kids are
left to "research" a topic on their own. Typically they google and
find facts in Wikipedia, which they copy to their papers. The
phrase does not say anything about Wikipedia in itself, but
describes an irresponsible attitude from some teachers. The sad
effect is that Wikipedia's name is associated with something bad.
How could we turn this around, so Wikipedia is associated with
serious knowledge and good education?
What you describe isn't necessarily a bad thing. Independent learning
and research is a very important part of education. It all comes down
to the details of how it is done.
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