Thing 3 revisited. Not being entirely sure how it happened, I subscribed to two different RSS Feeds and the one I found was actually not Aggrivating; it looked interesting.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Teaching with Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia of over two million articles that is open to anyone to edit. It does well in Google search results and is one of the most heavily used sites on the Internet. Students are increasingly using Wikipedia to conduct research. The fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia has raised concerns from many academics and some of them have banned the use of Wikipedia in their courses. Despite this, recent research reports in Nature and the Journal of American History have found the accuracy of Wikipedia comparable to the Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta.
I was looking for "information literacy" as a topic and found Information Literacy in the Land of Confusion....it seemed match made in heaven for me. Actually the above article snippet was taken from that and I liked it. A lot of our Humboldt students use Wikipedia.
Here's the site from which the italicized part is taken: http://www.information-literacy.net/
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