Events2Join

Wikipedia Editing Develops Students' Information Sourcing and ...


Wikipedia Editing Develops Students' Information Sourcing and ...

Wikipedia editing develops students' information sourcing and writing skills. Posted by Elizabeth Che on May 5, 2020.

Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics

If you are a professional researcher, engineer, mathematician, scholar, graduate student, or other academic, you are very likely already familiar with ...

Improving Information Literacy through Wikipedia Editing in the ...

Assignments in which students edit Wikipedia may help students learn about the complexities of information creation and production, while engaging them in ...

Giving Psychology Away: Implementation of Wikipedia Editing in an ...

... students in developing ... Prior studies engaging students in Wikipedia editing offered preliminary reports of improvements in information ...

Wikipedia Editing as Scholarly Practice – Digital Matters

... source of information for people across the globe – including students. ... Editing Wikipedia for a class assignment develops students ...

Is Wikipedia a good source? When to use the online encyclopedia

Students can be editors. Students can write content, share information and properly cite scholarly sources on Wikipedia by becoming an editor.

Triangulation toward understanding university student engagement

Through the Public Policy Initiative, the Wikimedia Foundation developed a framework for supporting university instructors using Wikipedia in the classroom.

Why you should learn to edit Wikipedia, and teach your students, too!

Build information literacy skills (for students):. Explore the notion that “authority is constructed and contextual”; Develop a strong sense ...

Write for Wikipedia - Information Literacy Toolkit

Developing a Research Question ... These are fun events with low commitment, and a great way to introduce your students to editing Wikipedia.

Help:Editing - Wikipedia

... edited almost as if it were already published. The Wikipedia community has developed style guidelines to make articles and facts appear in a standardized ...

NLP Blog: Teachers, It's Time to Embrace Wikipedia

... students the requirements of editing an article on the site. Have ... Wikipedia is a deep, reliable source of factual information. As a ...

Who Edits Wikipedia Articles? | College of Natural Resources News

Yuan Yao is editing Wikipedia articles with the help of graduate students ... source of information is more representative, accurate, and complete ...

Digital Crowdsourcing: Wikipedia - Research Guides

A Wikipedia editing assignment can empower your students. to pursue research topics of their choice,; to evaluate and use information sources, ...

How Wikipedia Can Influence Social Action in a BIG Way

College students have the power to become powerful agents for editing on Wikipedia --- simultaneously gaining a useful editing toolkit and comprehensive ...

Wikipedia:Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia

So, there is an increasing need for the scientific community to engage with Wikipedia to ensure that the information it contains is accurate and current. For ...

Do you edit Wikipedia? - Active History

It is the first source of information for a growing proportion of ... Wikipedia for research and ask their students to write Wikipedia articles as ...

perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors

In this paper, we explore the experiences of a group of people as they engage in these production processes and develop as Wikipedia editors.

UBCO students learn the pros and cons of Wikipedia

... source for quick information, but very ... By following Wiki Education tutorials and editing their articles themselves, students develop ...

Wikipedia:Student assignments

This page in a nutshell: When students edit Wikipedia as part of an assignment, it should improve Wikipedia – without any serious violations of content norms.

Resources for Using & Editing Wikipedia - Research Guides

Wikipedia assignments can be valuable tools to help students develop information and digital literacies, composition and editorial skills, reference skills, ...