many-2-many comment re wikipedia October 24, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Wiki , trackbackIn a comment on Ross Mayfield’s post at many-2-many, photographer Kevin Bjorke writes
Sadly but not surprisingly, wikipedia is not much favored as an acceptable resource for academic papers, even at the high-school and middle-school levels (much less grad school). This seems to me a harmful trend — even as students grow up with a lot of experience-based trust in large-scale databases and search engines, their teachers deny the viability of this information. I can’t help but feel that the net result is not students who view the internet skeptically as much as students who view their teachers skeptically.
The interesting thing to me is that I’ve been observing recently at a school for younger students, the children are finding Wikipedia coming up in relevant search results quite often now, and the teachers are actually recommending the site without even knowing (or perhaps caring) what wikipedia is or how it works. I’m just waiting for the day when somebody point out an error on a page so I can say “well, you see this little edit tab here…let’s put it right shall we?”
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