wikipedia - a teachers' primer
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from the conference: http://open-edge.info/TRANSCRIPT
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OPEN-EDGE 2009
Wikipedia:a teachers’ primer
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“I read Wikipedia articles...
People always say to me:
...but you don’t actually use them, do you?”
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Definitions of “use”• read it
• cite it
• edit it
• research it
the best place to start
use its references instead
a way to learn by doing
potentially enlightening!
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• What is “a free education” in the digital age?
• Why should you care about Wikipedia?
• Wikipedia as a teaching tool its own right
In this presentation
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“a free education...”
• used to mean “at no cost [to student]” (19th C)
• now also means “to give students and teachers freedom to control their education”
In the digital age a “free education” is also an “open education”
GRATIS
LIBRE
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“...a free education” • Royalties paid by DET to CAL for freely
available content continue to blow out
• Educators have barely scratched the surface of using digital resources
• Either the law will have change or else schools won’t be able to afford to provide a digital education...
Knowledge wants to be free, knowledge also wants to be expensive.
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“We don’t need your education!”
Or alternatively,
We create free & open educational content from scratch to circumvent the restrictions.
In the end it’s better anyway!
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If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.
- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”
If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.
knowledge
education
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Wikipedia is!• 100% FLOSS, 100% open standards, 100% copyleft
• charitable foundation, volunteers, no advertising, no royalties, no permissions, available to use and re-use.
GRATIS LIBRE
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“Data to the people”
Wikipedia is familiar to students, but not to teachers; library databases are familiar to teachers, but to students.
The value of open APIs and standards-based data is to bring information to where people are already comfortable - rather than forcing the people to go to the information.
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Why you need to know2. It has something on everything
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Why you need to know3. It is a global community
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Why you need to know4. It is happening now
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Why you need to know5. It’s where other (smart) people are already
UN University (Maastricht) Survey 2008
ComScore March 2009
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Why you need to know6. Other institutions (that students should be using) are already using it too
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Why you need to know7. It is emblematic of many changes in society
http://underdogpictures.com/wikidoc/site/trailer.htm
Documentary previews - “Truth in Numbers”
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Truth in Numbers - Issues raised in the preview
• censorship, communicating across languages/cultures, reliability, the “other”, types of media, digital society, collaborative writing, meaning construction, transparency...
• “Glocalisation”
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Definitions of “true”
• Professionalism
• Fixity
• Verifiability
• Objectivity
• Neutrality
amateur ≠ amateurish
Older = more or less likely?
Outsourcing truth?
A “noble dream”
Equal weight to unequal arguments?
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Who owns meaning?
Writer controls the meaning
or
Reader creates their interpretation?
When the reader IS the writer - what then?
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Ideas for Interacting with Wikipedia in a Classroom• Read a relevant article as a class and review it
• Gather references for the text of an existing article
• Improve a shorter article as a class in one lesson
• Debate the discussion archive of a contentious article
• Discuss the language changes in the edit history
• Individuals improve an article over a term and report
• Compare articles across languages/encyclopedias
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But make sure to publish your findings!
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:School_and_university_projects
[[WP:SUP]]
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Featured Content
2650 Articles - 2027 Pictures -1531 Lists - 140 Portals -124 Sounds - 99 Topics
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one more thing...We have lots of educational resources about American culture. But relatively little about
Australian culture.
1. It’s made available2. Copyright freedom
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American Institutions:• multiple file formats (inc .tiff)• no ambit claims• no digital watermarking• default is open for US Gov’t.
Australian Institutions:• low resolution jpg format• “personal and private use”• watermarking• Crown Copyright is by default closed.