Wikipedia in the Classroom

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[edit] New Media Literacy

• Professor Dale Bradley

• Module: Information Society

• Two blog posts per module
  • Submitted via Assignment tool URL

• how and why documents and documentation will not disappear now that the Internet is here
• but the fundamental social necessity of producing, recording, storing, and circulating information does not.

• Produsage
  • open, peer to peer, and radically democratic system of knowledge production and circulation

• Biased
  • because it necessarily and obviously reflects the interests of those who choose to contribute
  • War of 1812 analysis
  • Tensions abound, as do agonized discussions over the facts, processes, sources, and presentation of the material.

• Reliability
  • Nature article

[edit] Wikipedia Teaching Fellow

• Why Wikipedia does belong in the classroom

• Jonathan Obar: http://readwrite.com/author/jonathan-obar#awesm=~odWsAuxOKYlu6M
• http://readwrite.com/2012/09/20/why-wikipedia-does-belong-in-the-classroom#awesm=~odWriazxCdYe95

Jonathan Obar <obar AT msu.edu>

(in response to:)

• Why Wikipedia doesn't belong in the classroom
• http://readwrite.com/2012/09/12/why-wikipedia-doesnt-belong-in-the-classroom#awesm=~odWt4v6wjLEVCV

[edit] Wikipedia Ambassador Program