After reading through NewsAndEventsGuy and Eneoscot's pages I feel somewhat better about Wikipedia. On both pages there was evidence of peer reviewing. When mistakes were found the authors were made aware of it. I can clearly see where NewsAndEventsGuy took the feedback and fixed his mistakes. This makes Wikipedia somewhat more credible to me, but there is still the possibility that the authors, or the peer reviewers, are presenting false information. After reading these pages I still feel Wikipedia is a good starting point source, but should not be used as a main source for research.
How do think Wikipedia could be integrated into classroom activities?
I like the idea of having the students conduct web page evaluations like we did for this assignment. I think it would a good lesson to give them a variety of sites (ones that we have already evaluated as reliable/unreliable) and see if they come to the same conclusion we did after their evaluation. I think afterwards there could be some good discussions on why the students rated the web pages reliable/unreliable.
What do you think about using Wikipedia as a source of information instead of textbooks?
I like the idea of integrating online research as opposed to strictly textbooks, because the majority of research students do in the future will be online. Again, I think Wikipedia is a good starting resource, but the students would need to be taught how to evaluate the information found on the site before they use it as a citable source. Once they are proficient at evaluating Wikipedia information, I think it could be a great tool in the classroom.
Has your opinion changed? How? Why?
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