This link has been bookmarked by 60 people . It was first bookmarked on 09 Apr 2008, by Nancy White.
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The one skill that this project does not teach the students is how to construct an argument. And of course, argumentation, the development of a coherent series of points, the production and defence of a cogent thesis, is indeed at the core of the academic enterprise. I value that skill very highly.
But one could argue that for most of the occupations that most of these students will be entering after they finish their time in academia, argumentation is not in fact so important as it is in the academy itself. Information gathering, presentation, meticulousness, teamwork, and the ability to negotiate with the public sphere are (I hesitate perhaps to admit) much more useful to them.
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Clint LalondeDetails of JBM's Wikipedai assignment for his students to get a Wikipedia article they authored to feature article status
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Yet here lay also one of the great benefits of the assignment. Precisely because of Wikipedia's injunction (oft-repeated by the various members of the FA-team) that every item in their article had to be referenced, students were forced to reveal their sources. These poor sources came to light in a way that they might well not have were they writing a term paper. Moreover, precisely because writing on Wikipedia is a process of continual revision, they could be asked to go back and re-evaluate their sources, find better ones, and try again. Even with plagiarism, there was no longer the need to make a song and dance about it, because at no time were they handing in what purported to be a final product.
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eric_francoeur"I decided to include Wikipedia as a central part of a course I was teaching in the belief that it was only by actively contributing to the encyclopedia that students would learn about its weaknesses, as well as its strengths. And also with the idea that they would thereby, and perhaps rather incidentally, improve articles in a field (Latin American literature) in which in my experience Wikipedia has been especially weak."
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provolotcourse on creating wikipedia articles
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Christine *Was introducing Wikipedia to the classroom an act of madness leading only to mayhem if not murder?
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tori- rio"I decided to include Wikipedia as a central part of a course I was teaching in the belief that it was only by actively contributing to the encyclopedia that students would learn about its weaknesses, as well as its strengths. And also with the idea that
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Philip CummingsReflections on the use of Wikipedia in the University of British Columbia's course SPAN312, "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation," Spring 2008.
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it has been remarkably successful at promoting a culture of intellectual inquiry
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I liked the idea that students would be engaging in a real world project, with tangible and public, if not necessarily permanent, effects
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students are seldom motivated to re-read and reflect upon their own work
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Here they would be writing for a public audience, also one that almost uniquely was in a position to write back, to re-write and comment upon what they were writing
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There is always a danger to allowing students to interface directly with the public sphere. And we have a duty of care to them in some way, which is perhaps why so much educational technology (above all WebCT) is sealed off from the "real world."
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Nigel RobertsonJohn Beasley-Murray's user page on Wikipedia where he describes creating a writing assignment for his students and the ups and downs of the exercise.
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Lisa Spiroonly by actively contributing to the encyclopedia that students would learn about its weaknesses, as well as its strengths.
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E.J. SorensenWikipedia entry posted by University of British Columbia professor who highlights the process of assigning his students with creating a Wikipedia entry relating to Spanish and Latino authors.. Entry highlights the struggles and successes of using this typ
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Peter ShanksJon Beasley-Murray writes about an amazing project that brings the full extent of the communal and collaborative power of Wikipedia into the classroom
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in groups, the students should edit (and in a couple of cases create) wikipedia articles
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they should bring these articles up to what in wikipedia parlance is called "featured article" status.
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It is a lamentable fact that, with rare exceptions such as in the Composition classroom, students are seldom motivated to re-read and reflect upon their own work. Indeed, they often scarcely even glance at the comments professors laboriously write up on their work: understandably given that there is usually by this stage no chance to change things further, they are interested in the grade, and that is it. Students seldom learn about the importance of revision to good writing. And yet on wikipedia, revision is (almost) everything: contributors are called editors precisely because their writing is a near-constant state of revision.
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Finally, I liked the notion that the grade that they would receive for this assignment would come from outside the class itself; that their work would be judged by its external impact, and not by the professor's personal judgement (however professional that might be). I declared from the outset that a group that turned its article into a "featured article" would receive an A+, no questions asked; and that groups that achieved "good article" status (a lower hurdle, though good articles still account for only about 0.15% of wikipedia's total) would receive an A. The assignment grade, in other words, would be determined by collective, public, peer review.
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Tony HirstA project to set students the task of creating an on-topic feature article in wikipedia
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paul reidWas introducing wikipedia to the classroom an act of madness leading only to mayhem if not murder?
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