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How I Learned How To Stop Worrying And Learned To Love Wikipedia<br>Brian C. Housand, PhD<br>North Carolina Gifted Conference (NCAGT)<br>Winston-Salem, NC <br>March 26, 2009

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  1. Dr. Brian Housand On: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Wikipedia http://brianhousand. googlepages. com NCAGT 3/26/2009

  2. 1,000- THousand brianhousand .googlepages .com

  3. Techie Educator Gifted Researcher

  4. I

  5. How a ragtag band created Wikipedia

  6. "the sum of all human knowledge"

  7. It’s the first place I go when I am looking for knowledge, or I want to create some. Stephen Colbert

  8. Rather than running the risk of having our students become "walking encyclopedias," we need to teach them how to think creatively. (Sternberg, 2006)

  9. Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

  10. What’s Ahead… • Wikipedia on Wikipedia • New Literacies • 10 ideas for using Wikipedia

  11. The Five Pillars of Wikipedia 1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

  12. The Five Pillars of Wikipedia 2. Wikipedia must have a neutral point of view. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

  13. The Five Pillars of Wikipedia 3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone may edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

  14. The Five Pillars of Wikipedia 4. Wikipedia has a Code of Conduct. Civility / Maturity / Responsibility Respect your fellow Wikipedians! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

  15. The Five Pillars of Wikipedia 5. Wikipedia does not have firm rules besides the five pillars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

  16. General Disclaimer WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer

  17. What Wikipedia is NOT • A paper encyclopedia • A dictionary • A publisher of original thought • A soapbox • A repository of links • A directory • A manual • A guidebook • A textbook • A crystal ball • A list of FAQs, plot summaries, lyrics, statistics, or news reports • Censored http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT

  18. WHO ARE THESE Wikipedians? Wikipedians are people who write and edit the pages for Wikipedia. Anyone can be a Wikipedian -- including you. Just click the edit link at the top of any page. Currently, 9.2 million+ named accounts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

  19. This is where the REAL information is. Who said what and when. This is as far as most people get. Your chance to share your knowledge.

  20. Researching With Wikipedia You should not use only Wikipedia for primary research (unless you are writing a paper about Wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia

  21. Researching With Wikipedia • Always be wary of any one single source • Encyclopedias are secondary sources • Check references http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia

  22. Searching For Truth With Triangulation

  23. Featured Content • The BEST that Wikipedia has to offer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_content

  24. Grading Scheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Grading_scheme

  25. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects

  26. Alternatives To Wikipedia Citizendium Knol from Google Encarta Encyclopedia Britannica Online

  27. http://schools-wikipedia.org/

  28. What areNewLiteracies? (Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)

  29. IDENTIFYImportant Questions

  30. LOCATE Information

  31. CRITICALLYEVALUATEInformation

  32. SYNTHESIZEInformation

  33. COMMUNICATE Answers

  34. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

  35. 5 Types of Evaluation • Understanding • Relevancy • Accuracy • Reliability • Bias (Coiro, 2006)

  36. Ten Ideas for Using WIKIPEDIA

  37. 1. WIKIPEDIA ON TRIAL • Determine the "crime" first by having the group generate a list of reasons why Wikipedia might be on trial. • Students play the roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys, jury members, witnesses, and the judge.

  38. 2. EVALUATE Create an evaluation tool for examining the quality of a Wikipedia entry.

  39. 3. Socratic Seminar • CONSIDER: • How is Wikipedia an example of Collective Knowledge? • What qualifies a person as an "expert" - in Wikipedia and in life? • What hidden purposes might there be for putting information in Wikipedia? Are they ethical?

  40. 4. Wikipedia:Portal Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. They are meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution.

  41. 5. Expanding a Stub http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types

  42. 6. Debate A Wikipedia Policy Using formal debate rules, hold a debate on creating a school policy for or against the use of Wikipedia in school research.

  43. 7. Compare Encyclopedias Traditional Paper Encyclopedias Citizendium Knol from Google Encarta Encyclopedia Britannica Online

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