To Wiki Or Not To Wiki?
Using Wikipedia to Teach Critical Thinking Skills
Workshop presented by Brian Housand and Kristina Ayers Paul
Wiki NAGC.pdfNAGC - Minneapolis, MN
November 9, 2007
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But, traditional encyclopedia are out of date.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
Dog Island
Where to Hide from Mother Nature
Storrs, CT - The safest place to live in America
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
REMEMBER: Blogs are for opinions, and Wikis are for facts!
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 Sciencehttp://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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