'Love this practical "crowd-sourced" lesson!

One other thought: Why not frame this in an Essential Question (EQ) such as; EQ: How can we determine if something is Accurate, Biased, Credible and/or reliable?

This will give you an opportunity to assess their learning as they may not be able to answer this at the beginning of the lesson, but will be able to at the end.

Also -- You could layer an element of "real world" and tell them they are being trained for the Snopes community and will have to become a "Fact-checker" That might bring a fun element to it.

Enjoy and I commend you for sharing. Everyone knows our millennial students are hanging out on Wikipedia, anyway.

--Paige

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On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Sarles Patricia (18K500) <PSarles@schools.nyc.gov> wrote:

I want to thank EVERYONE for their feedback. Based on feedback both on and off list, both warm and cool, I have re-tweaked the assignment. I really do appreciate the time everyone took to look at my assignment and respond to it. Librarians are wonderful people! Some people felt, why bother with Wikipedia at all since the students are not allowed to use it. It is true, we don't really want students using it, but the reality is that students are most likely going to use it anyway, so why not teach them how to use it critically. Personally (and professionally), I also think it really is a great place to get background information and most especially some of the vocabulary (i.e., keywords) used around that topic.

I have taken several suggestions and compiled them into a single assignment. Some suggestions I will use for a second assignment, e.g., to learn to check the history of an article and the talk feature. However, I must admit that there is more I need to learn myself about Wikipedia beyond just being able to read an article and check the references.

Here is the re-tweaked assignment:

http://collegeresearchskills.pbworks.com/w/page/106074129/Sample%20Wikipedia%20assignment%202

Meanwhile, does anyone have a "finding a keyword" assignment or "subject vs. keyword" assignment they are willing to share?

Thank you again everyone for your kindness and your help.

Patricia

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