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Has your opinion of Wikipedia changed at all this week?
I have to admit that as a result of this week’s activities, my thoughts on wikis have changed. I came to this material having experienced a great deal of the downside of Wikipedia. For example, students citing it as the greatest purveyor of truth out there and/or giving me Works Cited pages that were nothing but a long list of entries from Wikipedia, and so forth.
What the activities have shown me is that while this is by far the more prevalent side of wikis for educators, and will likely be for the near future, there are numerous other applications as a pedagogic tool. Chief among these is having students construct their own wiki. I am really sold on this idea, if for nothing else that it will likely teach them to use other wikis critically. This amounts to critical thinking, which is one of the main attributes I hope to hone in my classroom.
Jim Mc Intyre
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