In today's class, we spent a lot of time discussing the pros and cons of Wikipedia. Before the discussion, I doubted if Wikipedia would be a reliable website for students since it could be edited by people "randomly". But I would use Wikipedia for the students as a starting point to research some basic background knowledge of what they concern, and encourage them to search more resources to prove the information they find on Wikipedia is correct or not. However, after our discussion, my thought have been changed. It's interesting to hear about the community of Wikipedia, their vision or their goals that bound them together as a team to build up this free platform to share knowledge to the mass. I really appreciate their work on building this encyclopedia. Additionally, the multi-language versions which Les mentioned is another advantage of Wikipedia especially when we have ELL students who speak different languages other than English, they can get assistance if needed.
Many thanks to our professor for giving us the 100 education apps, can't wait to explore them!!
Alexa thoughts
10 years ago
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