Last week I had all the Juniors in for research for their big Chem./English
project. I had thought to caution them about using Wikipedia- but then had
an idea - Instead of telling them not to use it I explained to each class
the problems and concerns so many of you have expressed recently. Then I
told them to go ahead and use it but to be sure to verify any information
they found by also going to other more authoritative sites. As they were
working, I walked around to help where I could and actually heard some of
them reminding their group members to be sure to check the info before
adding it to the Works Cited listing.
Great - guess sometimes they are listening, after all. Also, whey not use
Wikipedia the same way we do when we teach how to evaluate a website? - It
would make a good lesson in verifying information found.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St.Charles Preparatory School
Columbus,Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Quinn" <cquinn@SAINTVIATOR.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] More fodder for the wiki-wars
> Good morning all,
> I guess I must confess to plain stupidity in this whole question. Why,
> why,
> why, would we as librarians be supportive of a reference source when there
> is any question about the validity of the information. Now I am not so
> naïve as to think that all other "recognized " sources are always
> accurate,
> but in this case it is clear right up front there will be inaccuracies.
> Granted apparently there is some system for correcting mis-information.
> But
> if little Johnny is using Wikipedia at 10:00 and an inaccuracy was placed
> there at 9:55 then he is not going to know that by tomorrow it will be
> different. Why bother with this as a reference source?
> Now granted I am in a college prep high school where we place a lot of
> emphasis of academic research, so I can see how grade school people might
> have different feelings.
>
> Cheryl Quinn
> Librarian
> St. Viator High School
> Arlington Heights, IL
> cquinn@saintviator.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacqueline Henry [mailto:jhenry@GANANDA.ORG]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:32 PM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: More fodder for the wiki-wars
>
> Every time I start feeling better about Wikipedia as a resource -
> something else happens....
>
> http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/31578/
>
> I might as well resign myself to be permanently ambivalent about it.
>
> Jacquie
>
> "The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
> poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
> way."
>
>>From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jacquie Henry, MLS
> Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
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