Innovative Thinking: Wikipedia Entries Instead of Term Papers

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via ARS Technica.

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The use of Wikipedia as a source of information for classwork has been
widely reported on and has even happened in classes taught by our own Ken
Fisher. But this may not mean that Wikipedia has no place in the classroom,
if Martha Groom at the University of Washington-Bothell has her way.
Instead of letting her students rely on Wikipedia as a source, however,
Groom has turned it into a destination for their classwork: in place of a
term paper, her students were required to create Wikipedia entries.

Groom, who teaches environment and ecology classes, presented her
experience at the 2007 EDUCAUSE conference, which focuses on IT in the
education environment.

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More:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071030-prof-replaces-term-papers-wit
h-wikipedia-contributions.html

My hat is off to Ms. Groom -- now this, is innovative thinking.

- - ferg

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