[LM_NET] Wikipedia credibility lesson

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

Hi all,

There have been discussions about using Wikipedia on both of these 
lists. I just found out about a really excellent lesson about Wikipedia 
from the excellent folks in Canada - Media Awareness.

The lesson is here: 
<http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/internet/taming_wild_wiki.cfm>

For older students you could possibly expand this lesson to do a 
research project on cultural imperialism and history textbooks. Perhaps 
they could collaboratively develop design principles for a 
Wiki-World-History site.

Nancy

-- 
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
nwillard@csriu.org

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