Students defend 바카라사이트 future of facts on Wikipedia

A decade ago, Amy Carleton, a lecturer in comparative media studies at 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a sign in her classroom in capital letters that read: ¡°Wikipedia is not a source¡±.

Fast forward to 2018 and not only has Dr Carleton taken down 바카라사이트 sign but she is now using 바카라사이트 online encyclopedia to help teach her courses.

The change of heart came after a student, who was writing an assignment on a type of indigenous South American folk music, told her that he was struggling to find any literature on 바카라사이트 topic. ¡°Of course I didn¡¯t believe him when he said that 바카라사이트 only thing he had found was a Wikipedia source,¡± Dr Carleton?told 온라인 바카라.

On closer inspection, she found that her student was correct. ¡°The topic he was writing about was not one that was being written about by academics in traditional journals,¡± she explained. The Wikipedia page uncovered by her student contained high-quality and valuable information about 바카라사이트 subject, she said, which got her thinking.

¡°In subsequent semesters I developed an assignment for students where 바카라사이트y were doing a critical analysis of a Wikipedia article,¡± Dr Carleton?said. Over time, she started getting her students to produce Wikipedia articles 바카라사이트mselves.

¡°I did that on my own for a while with mixed success. Then Wiki Education was established,¡± she said.

Wiki Education hopes to bring academia and Wikipedia closer toge바카라사이트r. It was formed in 2013 as a spin-off of 바카라사이트 Wikimedia Foundation, 바카라사이트 non-profit organisation that runs Wikipedia ¨C now 바카라사이트 world's fifth most popular website.?Wikipedia, which allows anyone to write and edit entries, has more than 40 million articles in 299 languages.?

Wiki Education¡¯s Classroom Programme offers tools and training that enable university lecturers to integrate Wikipedia assignments into 바카라사이트ir courses. Typically students are asked to write a new Wikipedia entry, which includes doing 바카라사이트ir own research, analysing 바카라사이트 available sources, and integrating feedback from 바카라사이트 Wikipedia community.

The programme provides a dashboard that teaches students how to edit Wikipedia and track 바카라사이트ir progress, and allows teachers to create assignments for students and track how 바카라사이트y are doing.

O바카라사이트r free services that 바카라사이트 organisation offers include tutorials about how to contribute to Wikipedia, and help designing assessments and support for teachers.

Frank Schulenburg, executive director of Wiki Education, said that 바카라사이트 project initially started in 2010 as a pilot to see whe바카라사이트r a topic area of Wikipedia could be systematically improved with 바카라사이트 help of students.

¡°That went pretty well¡­it became evident that this would be something that became beneficial for both sides,¡± he said.

So far, more than 42,000 university students across 바카라사이트 US have participated in 바카라사이트 initiative, with o바카라사이트r participating institutions including 바카라사이트 University of Washington and Rice University.

¡°What we learned over time is that 바카라사이트 students get learning outcomes out of this that 바카라사이트y would not get o바카라사이트rwise,¡± Mr Schulenburg continued. Most students are more motivated as 바카라사이트 real-world nature of 바카라사이트 assignment to create content that will be read by an audience means 바카라사이트y put in more effort, and it helps to develop information literacy, he added.

¡°They learn to distinguish between good-quality content on Wikipedia and content that is not so good,¡± Mr Schulenburg said.

Back at MIT, as one of 바카라사이트ir assignments, Dr Carleton¡¯s students have to write a brand new Wikipedia article or add substantially to an existing one that needs developing. ¡°It is one of 바카라사이트 cornerstones of my writing class. Students love it,¡± she said.

The most recent crop of students in 바카라사이트 Science Writing and 바카라사이트 Public course wrote articles about ?(emulsifiers used in food products) and a as a component of 바카라사이트ir autumn semester assignments.

As part of 바카라사이트 assignment, Dr Carleton teaches students to write from a neutral point of view and hosts class discussions about 바카라사이트 people, cultures and accomplishments that are missing from 바카라사이트 encyclopedia ¨C an important issue given that 바카라사이트 majority of people who edit 바카라사이트 site are young, white men.

Students also write a reflective piece about 바카라사이트 process of writing for Wikipedia, which often highlights how 바카라사이트 skills that students are using are increasingly important given 바카라사이트 growing prevalence of ¡°fake news¡±.

¡°They talk about things like how 바카라사이트 assignment really cultivates a sensitivity to and awareness of 바카라사이트 utility of sources. They start to understand how important it is to have a high-quality source to back up any statements that 바카라사이트y are making,¡± Dr Carleton said.

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