{"id":84,"date":"2005-09-29T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/29\/what-about-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:40:46","slug":"what-about-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/29\/what-about-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"What About Wikipedia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never encountered real hostility towards Wikipedia, mostly just concerns that, with a little education, can be answered.  Inevitably, when I do a workshop and mention Wikipedia, I get one or two questions about accuracy.  How can we trust something that we all create together?  So, I give them some time to browse, reading articles in their particular areas of expertise.  We look at the history of a page, how it is built by consensus and then monitored and maintained by its creators.  And, since Tom Friedman&#8217;s book came out, I share with them his comments about how he used Wikipedia regularly in writing his latest book, <em>The World Is Flat<\/em>.  These practices help them understand how Wikipedia works and the community that has developed around it.<\/p>\n<p>I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andycarvin.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/turning_wikiped.html\">Andy Carvin&#8217;s idea for incorporating Wikipedia in the classroom<\/a> that he suggested over the summer.  Since then, I have shared his ideas with several groups and most have found it a great idea that they planned to implement during the school year.  Again, giving people time to understand and explore is important if they are going to be supportive of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>I am using my own wiki (http:\/\/www.simplykaren.org\/wiki) as part of the pre-service education classes I am teaching.  Small groups are developing entries related to technology topics that we don&#8217;t always have time to cover in class.  My special education class is working on an entry about assistive technology.  I explained to them that this really is an experiment in a new way of writing and creating.  You can watch the development of these entries at the wiki.  Later in the semester, I will have them reflect on the process, which is actually what I&#8217;m really interested in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never encountered real hostility towards Wikipedia, mostly just concerns that, with a little education, can be answered. Inevitably, when I do a workshop and mention Wikipedia, I get one or two questions about accuracy. How can we trust something that we all create together? So, I give them \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/29\/what-about-wikipedia\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}