This little item from CNN.com details a brilliant class project assigned by a University of Washington-Bothell professor: write a Wikipedia article. Way to adapt the old group research project into something that not only teaches research and writing skills, but also engages students with social media, tackles the issues involved with evaluating internet sources, and exposes the students to important lessons about collaboration and technology.
Best of all,
“The exercise also gave students a taste of working in the real world of peer-reviewed research.”
It’s nice to see that educators are finding ways to handle the era of Wikipedia in constructive, practical ways.
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