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DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNINGWhat’s left to teach
now that Wikipedia has done everyone’s homework?
David WhiteUniversity of the Arts
@daveowhitebit.ly/wikimania2014
Why are you listening to this talk?
bit.ly/wikimania2014@daveowhite
If the answer to the homework you’ve set is a Wikipedia page then you need to change the way you teach.
Education vs Learninghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shaylor/13945881
‘I say Wikipedia often but it is not just for learning, I like to go on there and just read things, anything really… If I was using it as a source in my coursework I probably wouldn’t use Wikipedia because it is unreliable.’ UKS3
Jisc, OCLC, Oxford
‘I’d like to thank Google, Wikipedia and copy & paste’
‘…when they say, ‘Don’t go to Wikipedia’ what everybody hears is, ‘Don’t quote Wikipedia’’USU6
Jisc, OCLC, Oxford
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
LearningBlack Market
https://www.flickr.com/photos/claustom/8845531526
‘I really don’t understand why Wikipedia is so taboo because - I mean, I do understand that anyone can add information on there but then again anyone can make a website, anyone can make a journal, it doesn’t make it like an educational source.’ USU7 Jisc, OCLC, Oxford
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Credibility
Dave White
‘While not originally perceived as such, credibility is now seen as a relative attribute dependant on perspective, and not an attribute inherent to a source, person or information object.’Berkman Center for Internet and Society Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
Visitor Resident
Visitor Resident
(Feel free to create a Wikipedia article on this)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:W
hat_”Ignore_all_rules”_means
‘All my professors have said that it’s not a citable source because anyone can change the information.’USU8
Jisc, OCLC, Oxford
“Think Less – Find More”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/denniswong/3591846573
‘Teachers don’t just dislike it because it’s not the most reliable source since anyone can post something on there even though the site is monitored, it’s because it’s too easy.’USU3
Jisc, OCLC, Oxford
Loss of taxonomy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvance/3633579006
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mellydoll/6541377523
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisa_rific/2819498128
Scattered hairballs
‘You can go to Wikipedia, you can get an answer, you don’t actually learn anything, you just get an answer.’Tutor via USU6
Jisc, OCLC, Oxford
If the answer to the homework you’ve set is a Wikipedia page then you need to change the way you teach.
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