To Wiki Or Not To Wiki?

 

Using Wikipedia to Teach Critical Thinking Skills

 

Workshop presented by Brian Housand and Kristina Ayers Paul

 

 

 

 

 

        http://wikipedia.org/

 

 

 

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Learned To Love Wikipedia

NCAGT 

Wintson-Salem, NC

March 26, 2009

 

 

Wiki NAGC.pdf

NAGC - Minneapolis, MN

November 9, 2007

 

 

Presentation from CECA / CEMA

Hartford, CT

October 23, 2007

 

 

 

Why are teachers concerned about students using Wikipedia?

The information may or may not be accurate.

You don't know where the information is coming from.

To what extent is it reliable.

How do you confirm or deny whether it is true or not.

 

 

But, traditional encyclopedia are out of date.

Much less expensive.

 

 

 

 

 

Five Pilars of Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

 

Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:10_things_you_did_not_know_about_Wikipedia

 

What Wikipedia Is NOT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT

 

Featured Content

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_content

 

Community Portal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal

 

Don't Believe Everything You Read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day/April_1%2C_2006

 

Researching with Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia

 

How Reliable is Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day/August_21%2C_2006

 

How to Edit a Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

 

Wikipedia content criteria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Wikipedia_content_criteria

 

 

 

When Reading a Wikipedia Entry Always....

Be critical of what you read

View the contents of the Discussion tab

Examine the article's History tab

Compare the contents with what you know and what other sources say

 

 

 

Why we need the Wikipedia

 

Principles of New LIteracies

http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/

The 5 Functions of New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension

IDENTIFYING important questions

LOCATING information

ANALYZING information

SYNTHESIZING information

COMMUNICATING information

 

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

 

 

 

 

Bluff The Internet Searcher Game

 

As a tribute to one of my favorite radio shows, NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me..." I present "Bluff the Internet Searcher!"

 

Here are some of my favorite Internet Hoaxes and one that is just plain funny.

Which is the most "reliable?"

 

Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

 

RYT Hospital

www.rythospital.com

 

Dog Island

www.thedogisland.com

 

Where to Hide from Mother Nature

Storrs, CT - The safest place to live in America

www.slate.com/id/2126321/

 

Like those? Here is a whole site of Internet Hoaxes

www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html

 

 

 

Teaching Truth in Triangulation

 

 

We need to teach our students how to be critical consumers and responsible producers.

 

 

 

Wikipedia vs. Citizendium

 

WikipediaVision

 

 

 

REMEMBER: Blogs are for opinions, and Wikis are for facts!

 

 

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Wikipedia Media

 

From NPR:

Wikipedia: Blessing or Curse?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10731811

 

Jimmy Wales on Fresh Aire

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874

 

Wikipedia and 'Notability

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7620868

 

Wikipedia Tracks Changes to Encyclopedia

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15835057&ft=1&f=1019

 

 

From Wired:

Why the Wikipedia Sucks on Science

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/why_does_wikipe.html

 

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Wales Videos

 

Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture

http://fora.tv/2006/04/14/Jimmy_Wales_on_Wikipedia

 

 

From The Colbert Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEDTalks: Jimmy Wales (2005)

 

 

 

 

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