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thedailywhat:

Wiki Dependency of the Day: Katie Notopoulos is using her Twitter account to catalog the complaints emanating from Millennials worried about how the Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 is going to affect their school projects.
[@katienotopoulos.]

asdfghjkl I have no pity for you, guys.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information for a paper.  It’s a great stepping stone to reliable information and a great way to learn about a topic before you go searching for other more specific sources, but it shouldn’t be the only resource you’re using.

How do we teach that to our students along with everything else we have to teach, and make it stick?  I’m supposed to show students the difference between a reliable and an unreliable source, but it’s a moot point when they don’t search for them in lieu of going straight to Wikipedia.

misterjmasters:

thedailywhat:

Wiki Dependency of the Day: Katie Notopoulos is using her Twitter account to catalog the complaints emanating from Millennials worried about how the Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 is going to affect their school projects.

[@katienotopoulos.]

asdfghjkl I have no pity for you, guys.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information for a paper.  It’s a great stepping stone to reliable information and a great way to learn about a topic before you go searching for other more specific sources, but it shouldn’t be the only resource you’re using.

How do we teach that to our students along with everything else we have to teach, and make it stick?  I’m supposed to show students the difference between a reliable and an unreliable source, but it’s a moot point when they don’t search for them in lieu of going straight to Wikipedia.

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