DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNINGWhat’s left to teach

now that Wikipedia has done everyone’s homework?

David WhiteUniversity of the Arts

@daveowhitebit.ly/wikimania2014

Why are you listening to this talk?

bit.ly/wikimania2014@daveowhite

If the answer to the homework you’ve set is a Wikipedia page then you need to change the way you teach.

Education vs Learninghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shaylor/13945881

‘I say Wikipedia often but it is not just for learning, I like to go on there and just read things, anything really… If I was using it as a source in my coursework I probably wouldn’t use Wikipedia because it is unreliable.’ UKS3

Jisc, OCLC, Oxford

‘I’d like to thank Google, Wikipedia and copy & paste’

‘…when they say, ‘Don’t go to Wikipedia’ what everybody hears is, ‘Don’t quote Wikipedia’’USU6

Jisc, OCLC, Oxford

DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING

LearningBlack Market

https://www.flickr.com/photos/claustom/8845531526

‘I really don’t understand why Wikipedia is so taboo because - I mean, I do understand that anyone can add information on there but then again anyone can make a website, anyone can make a journal, it doesn’t make it like an educational source.’ USU7 Jisc, OCLC, Oxford

DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING

Credibility

Dave White

‘While not originally perceived as such, credibility is now seen as a relative attribute dependant on perspective, and not an attribute inherent to a source, person or information object.’Berkman Center for Internet and Society Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality

Visitor Resident

Visitor Resident

(Feel free to create a Wikipedia article on this)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:W

hat_”Ignore_all_rules”_means

‘All my professors have said that it’s not a citable source because anyone can change the information.’USU8

Jisc, OCLC, Oxford

“Think Less – Find More”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/denniswong/3591846573

‘Teachers don’t just dislike it because it’s not the most reliable source since anyone can post something on there even though the site is monitored, it’s because it’s too easy.’USU3

Jisc, OCLC, Oxford

Loss of taxonomy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvance/3633579006

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mellydoll/6541377523

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisa_rific/2819498128

Scattered hairballs

‘You can go to Wikipedia, you can get an answer, you don’t actually learn anything, you just get an answer.’Tutor via USU6

Jisc, OCLC, Oxford

If the answer to the homework you’ve set is a Wikipedia page then you need to change the way you teach.

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Thanks@daveowhitehttp://bit.ly/wikimania2014