[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia education

[Lars Aronsson]

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?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se