Banning Wikipedia at school: good idea or missed opportunity? | Ars Technica Banning books has a long and storied history, but it's not nearly as much fun as burning them in midnight bonfires. (Wikipedia knows all about this.) With so much text moving online, though, burning has lost much of its practicality. Have you ever tried to burn a server? Banning, though, is very much alive, and Wikipedia knows about it too, but for different reasons. Not all of them. Wikipedia officials certainly don't dispute that characterization and have never held the site up as a tool for academic work, except as a jumping-off point. Perhaps it's a necessary one, though. These are bright kids, and they're in college. Turning Wikipedia into a learning opportunity But banning may not be the best way to do that. Besides, Wikipedia is easily available from home and personal computers, so maybe what's needed is more "source literacy" and media education instead.
Articulating an Impact on Student Learning by Elizabeth Burns, Assistant Professor, School Library Program, Department of Teaching & Learning, Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in December 2015, positions school librarians as Essential Personnel and provides potential dedicated funding to effective school libraries–IF we make them understand why school librarians matter. ESSA falls short, however, of identifying what characterizes an effective school library program. School systems follow the new norm in education: accountability is standardized in the evaluation process. When we discuss the multiple ways library program is critical to student learning, school librarians should: Looking to ESSA requires us to carefully and intentionally articulate the librarian’s instructional roles and the expertise required in an effective program. Traditional library statistics are one way school librarians can demonstrate an effective school library program. Tags: ESSA
Teach Information Literacy & Critical Thinking! Are you spending a lot of time helping your students do information research? Do they know the differences between scholarly and popular materials? Are they... using the web indiscriminately for research papers? These are symptoms of "information illiteracy." Save time and get better research papers by helping your students improve their information literacy skills. NOTE: See "Exercises & Handouts" in this site for an outline of a UCLA Graduate Teaching Assistant workshop on teaching information researching and critical thinking skills to undergraduates, as well as a copy of the PowerPoint slide show. Questions, corrections, or suggestions for additions to this site? ATTRIBUTION This site was originally created in 2009 by Esther Grassian as a LibGuide when she was Information Literacy Librarian in the UCLA College Library.
Wikipédia:Projets pédagogiques Témoignages Ci-dessous, quelques témoignages de professeurs ayant mené des projets pédagogiques sur Wikipédia. « […] C’est un exercice intéressant de recherche documentaire, puisque d’ordinaire, quand ils effectuent une recherche, ils ont déjà l’essentiel des réponses sur Wikipédia. Ils ont également à sélectionner des sources (on aborde alors la notion de source primaire et de source secondaire), et à recouper des informations, à les trier, à les structurer. La notion de propriété intellectuelle et de libre de droit est également centrale : le plagiat est immédiatement sanctionné (cela va généralement jusqu’à la suppression de l’article) ; et les illustrations ne peuvent pas être récupérées n’importe où, puisque tout doit être libre de droit. — Mme Boulo, professeur documentaliste, 2018 (source) — Mme Fourcassies, professeur de lettres, et Mme Torralbo, professeur documentaliste, 2015 (source) — Celia Guerrieri, professeur de lettres modernes, 2013 (source)
Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students Note taking skills aren’t just automatic. We tell students “take notes” but they have no idea what that means. What makes “good notes.” Ever since I went through the Writing Across the Curriculum Course at my school I realized the tremendous gap between “writing” as we’ve taught it traditionally and 21st century writing skills. Now I have a new frustration that has me grappling with noteaking. So, now, I’m taking the approach of helping students master analog notetaking. A note about In-Flip: The kids love it. I want to know what they are getting out of the videos and if they are pulling out the essential questions I’m giving them. So, here are some of the essential notetaking skills I’ve taught them so far. Cornell Notetaking System My favorite Cornell notetaking video is by Jennifer DesRochers. This method is THE SINGLE MOST important reason (besides studying myself blind) that I graduated first in my class from Georgia Tech. If you don’t believe me, look at student notes. You did it!
Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level One of the hardest things to teach, in my opinion, is research. I have been teaching in a computer lab for going on five years and I have never taught research the same way twice. This is partially because I never teach anything the same way twice, but it's also because each year I learn something new. Sometimes I learn the hard way when things don't pan out the way I planned in the classroom, sometimes I learn because something I didn't plan arose and worked out well, and sometimes its due to my own self-education as I prepare to teach my annual research unit. I begin teaching research skills in third grade -- just at the time where my students' reading skills are such that they can feel successful and just at the time when they have mounds and mounds of natural curiosity. In the past, I have done your typical find-information-and-regurgitate-it-to-me kinds of projects, all in the name of teaching students how to locate information. Choosing a Topic, Creating Keywords and Search Terms
Wikipédia — Enseigner avec le numérique Sur Wikipédia, la diversité des collaborateurs fait la qualité du contenu« La qualité générale d'un contenu dépend de la manière dont ses contributeurs ont travaillé, affirment des chercheuses de l'université d'Arizona. Tout du moins sur Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie en ligne à laquelle elles ont consacré leur attention. [...] Sept rôles ont ainsi été identifiés. [...] Les scientifiques se sont intéressées à un échantillon de quatre cents articles, de diverses qualités (évalués en fonction des critères internes à Wikipédia). "Nous avons ensuite classé les articles en fonction des rôles de leurs contributeurs", explique la responsable de l'étude. "Nous nous sommes rendus compte que les généralistes dominaient les articles de meilleure qualité"...» L'Atelier, 15/03/2010 Sociologie : de la dépendance des médias envers Wikipédia"Le titre peut paraître pédant, mais c'est bien du sujet d'une petite expérience sociologique qu'il est question. Les Numériques, 10/05/2009 Lire aussi Le Point, 06/02/2009
Knowledge Quest | AASL Copyright for Educators SlideShare with Audio <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> I’ve used the SlideShare “synchronization tool” to sync up the recorded audio from my ITSC 2009 session “Copyright for Educators” with my slides. Referenced links for this session are available on my presentation wiki page. This is the first SlideShare I’ve synchronized like this to recorded audio. Technorati Tags:copyright, education, school, teachers, educators, law, itsc09, itsc2009, itsc, slideshare, intellectualproperty On this day..
Wikipédia en établissement scolaire : pour ou contre ? Wikipedia, l'encyclopédie participative en ligne, est désormais utilisée de façon courante par les élèves des collèges et lycées pour réaliser leurs travaux de recherche documentaire. De nombreuses questions émergent pourtant autour de son utilisation : quid par exemple de la validité des informations qu'elle contient ? Comment est-elle structurée ? Y-a-t-il, par exemple, une validation scientifique des articles ? Wikipedia prend son nom du mot hawaïen "Wiki" qui signifie "rapide". Visions of the Future Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these visions of the future can become a reality. As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future. Click on any of the thumbnails below to learn more and download a free poster sized image. › Learn more about the posters Can I get copies of these posters from NASA or JPL?
Copyright and Schools Here's a nice, interactive website from the UK laying reasonably clear guidelines (well, as clear as copyright ever gets). But, as usual with most of these sites, it answers the easy questions and leaves the murkier ones still unanswered. For example, what to do with YouTube videos in an interactive iBooks project that will be published online. Dilemmas, dilemmas. UPDATE: I found a good link from Australia specifically addressing YouTube. Here's the gist, I think, (at least for our project): Generally you may embed a link to a YouTube video on another website. Even though it's going online, it's an embedded link, not a download; hence we're not copying. Any other thoughts on this?
WIKIPEDIA en établissement scolaire : des pistes à explorer A la fois outil d'édition et outil utilisé dans la recherche documentaire, Wikipedia n'est pas d'un usage évident pour les élèves. Les enseignants et en particulier les professeurs-documentalistes constatent que les élèves n'ont pas tout le recul nécessaire à une bonne compréhension de l'outil. Ces derniers sont la plupart du temps satisfaits d'avoir eu accès à une encyclopédie en ligne, qu'ils jugent fiable a priori. Ils se contentent bien souvent de cette seule source d'information, téléchargeant les articles qui les intéressent.Or, nous avons vu la nécessité d'avoir une conscience claire du mécanisme éditorial qui soutend Wikipedia. Le rôle du pédagogue paraît alors évident : amener les élèves à acquérir cette distance critique. Par quel biais ? en expliquant aux élèves le fonctionnement de WikipediaFiche-outil n°1 : "A propos de Wikipedia"Travail proposé par Jean-Philippe Martin, documentaliste au Lycée Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne. En guise de conclusion ...
10 Online Resources to Improve EL Literacy Many elementary school ESL teachers are now looking at materials for their 2016–2107 classroom. During a recent #ELLCHAT discussion, we shared ideas for choosing materials for ELs. One of the liveliest discussions was about online resources. I’d like to share some online resources that feature books for children and really work well for ELs. The best books sites for ELs have an audio component, and the words are highlighted as they are read. Fiction Resources EPIC is a free website for U.S. and Canadian-based elementary teachers. I also want to mention another site that is just for teachers. Nonfiction Resources I would also like to include these online articles that can be adapted for ELs in Grades K–12. Newslea takes news articles from around the world and rewrites them at up to five different lexile levels and in Spanish. In my next blog, I will discuss apps for ELs that help build literacy.