Comments on: Middlebury College vs. Wikipedia

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By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:52:45 +0000

@Trevor Owen:

All sources are subject to the same criticism. Understanding that is just one aspect of information literacy that we need to be teaching. Pick any article, anywhere and ask yourself “who wrote this and what are his/her biases?”

Wikipedia makes answering that question a little easier by allowing a reader to see other contributions an author has made, and giving a clear space for people to debate an issue.

By: Trevor Owen

Trevor Owen — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:40:00 +0000

There are plenty of good reasons to not allow Wikipedia as a source. As a student, I’ve felt the urge to cite it on numerous occasions, but I understand why it’s not a good idea. It’s too easy for people with an agenda, or for people who think it’s funny/entertaining, to go in and edit pages. While it is rare, I have seen it happen. What Wikipedia does do though is allow a student to get a broad image of what they’re researching, and then from there research pertinent information.

The easiest thing to do is just go to the bottom of the page and use the links to information that the authors of the Wikipedia page cited themselves (as long as those sources have any sort of authority on the subject of course).

By: Laurence Ross

Laurence Ross — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:32:06 +0000

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, spoke about this issue at the Common Wealth Club in San Francisco recently (July 2007). If you would like to see a write up of what he said, check out The Bay Area Intellect.

By: » Wikipedia The Wonder

» Wikipedia The Wonder — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:23:43 +0000

[...] Middlebury College banned it, but 46% of college students and 50% of college grads use it. [...]

By: Alcibiades

Alcibiades — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:32:27 +0000

Hear hear, my good man! I believe T.S. Eliot’s phrase ‘hypocrite lecteur’ sums up Middlebury’s standpoint quite well, although ‘hypocrite lecturer’ might be a bit more appropriate, given the situation.

Personally, I tell my students to evaluate information on Wikipedia like they would any other source: critically. After all, any quack can write a book

[tags]education, hypocrisy, middlebury, critical thinking[/tags]

By: John Martin

John Martin — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:17:43 +0000

It amazes me that for all our education we still insist upon attacking the symptoms of a problem rather than addressing the cause. The real issue here is the need to cultivate a digital literacy in not only our learners, but our faculty as well. Information changes far too rapidly for any print text to ever hope to keep up. For many resources, as soon as they finally make it to print, they are already obsolete.

Rather than rehash my post, I’ll just let folks take a peek here: http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/2007/01/29/attacking-the-symptoms/

Thanks for your post Casey, it helps breed awareness!

John

[tags]wikipedia, digital-literacy, information-literacy[/tags]