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Re: Wikipedia
Posted by Christine on 4/27/08
Thank You both for your responses!
On 4/26/08, Ennen wrote:
> My approach is much like Shelly's approach. I inform students
> of how wikis work. Many are surprised and how no idea. This
> year I showed them the website (can't think of it now) that
> displays the world map and tracks updates to Wikipedia ...
> they loved that ... and, it really proved the point that
> Wikipedia is a WIKI! They then understand how Wikipedia's
> credibility COULD be lowered (though I've read that because of
> all the activity, it remains very reliable). When it comes to
> research for my students, all info found in Wikipedia MUST be
> verified by another source. Wikipedia can not appear in their
> final works cited.
>
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> On 4/26/08, Shelly wrote:
>> I don't ban wikipedia, but I do discuss how it works and why
>> it is not a good work to cite in a paper. I have no problem
>> with students using is as a jumping off point (much like a
>> traditional encyclopedia), but I do expect works cited to
> come
>> from a much more authoritative source. For example, if they
>> find a piece of information in wikipedia that they want to
>> use, they need to verify it from another source.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Wikipedia, 4/25/08, by Christine.
- Re: Wikipedia, 4/26/08, by Shelly.
- Re: Wikipedia, 4/26/08, by Ennen.
- Re: Wikipedia, 4/27/08, by Christine.
- Re: Wikipedia, 4/30/08, by Melissa.
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