Wikipedia in the Classroom

New Media Information Society Professor Dale Bradley

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

Wikipedia Teaching Fellow

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

• 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>