I've been doing this also with the last few classes. It also informs the teachers
to not just accept Wikipedia references as their only Internet references. I think
they appreciated the 'heads up' on this.
Connie Williams
Kenilworth Jr High
LMT / NBPTS
800 Riesling Road
Petaluma, CA 94954
707-778-4719
chwms@mac.com
On Wednesday, February 01, 2006, at 09:05AM, Toni Koontz <akoontz@CDEDUCATION.ORG>
wrote:
>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
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>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
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>> 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)
>> Gananda Central School District
>> 3195 Wiedrick Road
>> P.O. Box 609
>> Macedon, NY 14502
>> 315-986-3521 x 3144
>> jhenry@gananda.org
>> Library Page: http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
>> Blog: http://nlcommunities.com/communities/wanderings/default.aspx
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