Submissions:2014/7th Grade wikipedia project

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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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