Well, I thought the assignment about Wikipedia was quite relevant to today's teaching and learning. This year I engaged my students in activities where they had to analyze, evaluate and then create changes to a wikipedia article as well as to document their revisions with cited references on their Wikipedia page.
Further, students assessed how primary sources, secondary sources, and the museum all shape the collective memory of their topic. In order to also challenge students to think about the impact of Web 2.0 technologies, like Wikipedia, and to think about information literacy skills, students were required to add information and cite a reference to the Wikipedia page relating to their topic.
I asked students to think about how sources like Wikipedia may contribute to the collective memory by reinforcing the dominant view, or if it seemed to create a place for minority viewpoints, and to think about how bias exists, how easily these sources of information are created or changed and how or why they need to be critical of information.
It is significant for educators to realistically think about what students (and people) are using for various types of online resources, and it is relevant to evaluate how these resources fit into education and to educate students more fully to and focus on building thier information literacy skills, that are relevant outside of as well as in the classroom.
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