[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia education

[Rodolfo M Vega]

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 at aronsson.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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