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| + | Wikipedia has become an essential resource for students who use it extensively both at home and at school. This is true at all levels of their studies: university, secondary or primary schools. It is pointless trying to fight this trend, as a lot of teachers still are doing, it is better to teach students to use Wikipedia properly. I tend to favor a “hands on” approach to learning, and have observed that students learn best how Wikipedia works by actually creating articles themselves. My 7th grade junior high school students have been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006. |
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| + | I live and work in Geneva, which is in the Franch speaking part of Switzerland. What is great about Wikipedia is that it is a truely international and multilingual encyclopedia which uses the same Mediawiki software. My students work mostly on the French Wikipedia, but the procedure will work in a very similar fashion on the English language wikipedia. After all, 7th grade students are 7th grade students, no matter what language they speak... |
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Revision as of 15:08, 19 March 2014
- Title of the submission
7th Grade wikipedia project
- Themes
Education
- Type of submission
Keynote or Curated Talk
- Author of the submission
Gabriel Thullen
- E-mail address
gabriel@thullen.com
- Username
GastelEtzwane
- US state or country of origin
Switzerland
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Wikimedia CH board member
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
This presentation will be an improved version of the presentation I gave at the Wikimania 2013 conference in Hong Kong. The submission description can be found here: http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/7th_Grade_wikipedia_project
The Wikimania presentation was filmed and the video can be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drNvAkPu6K8
Wikipedia has become an essential resource for students who use it extensively both at home and at school. This is true at all levels of their studies: university, secondary or primary schools. It is pointless trying to fight this trend, as a lot of teachers still are doing, it is better to teach students to use Wikipedia properly. I tend to favor a “hands on” approach to learning, and have observed that students learn best how Wikipedia works by actually creating articles themselves. My 7th grade junior high school students have been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006.
I live and work in Geneva, which is in the Franch speaking part of Switzerland. What is great about Wikipedia is that it is a truely international and multilingual encyclopedia which uses the same Mediawiki software. My students work mostly on the French Wikipedia, but the procedure will work in a very similar fashion on the English language wikipedia. After all, 7th grade students are 7th grade students, no matter what language they speak...
- Length of presentation/talk
60 Minutes or 15 Minutes, or any other length. My presentation is flexible.
- Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?
No. I have to take time off work and will not be able to justify it to my employer (the Geneva education departement)
- Slides or further information (optional)
Prezi presentation
- Special request as to time of presentations
None
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