Last month, I attended the Festival of Learning in Burnaby, British Columbia. The session about teaching with Wikipedia, co-facilitated by Dr. Rosie Redfield, Dr. Judy Chan, and Clint Lalonde, was a great opportunity to showcase Wikipedia’s efficacy as a pedagogical tool for students. Dr. Redfield taught an ecology class at the University of British Columbia. It’s … Continued
Next week, Outreach Manager Samantha Erickson and I will attend the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) annual meeting in San Diego. We’ll have a booth in the exhibit hall to speak to astronomers about how their students can join the Wikipedia Year of Science. If you’re attending the AAS conference, please stop by! We’ll discuss classroom assignments, Wiki Ed’s … Continued
Next week, I’ll attend the Festival of Learning in Burnaby, British Columbia. The conference brings together educators in British Columbia to celebrate teaching and learning, open education, and the use of technology to advance goals in higher education. I’ll join Classroom Program instructors from the University of British Columbia, Dr. Rosie Redfield and Dr. Judy Chan, and BC campus … Continued
In March, Wikipedia Content Expert Adam Hyland and I were honored to join faculty at Brown University and Northeastern University to encourage them to join the Wikipedia Year of Science. At Brown, we discussed the impact students can make by writing Wikipedia articles. Our host, Jim McGrath (pictured above), organized a group of faculty from several disciplines to hear how they … Continued
At Wikipedia workshops, I often talk about Wikipedia’s gender gap, in which far more men contribute than women. In fact, at least 80% of those who contribute content to Wikipedia are men. When I joined Dr. Monica Mercado, Director of the Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education, for a workshop … Continued
I recently attended the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Houston for a workshop about “Taking Action.” I joined a panel of instructors with experience integrating Wikipedia into their classrooms: Dr. Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Dr. Amy Carleton, and Greta Kuriger Suiter, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dr. Cecelia Musselman and Amanda Rust … Continued
Wikipedia is one of the most-accessed references in the world, with aims to include the sum of all human knowledge. Yet its coverage of crucial sciences, such as chemistry, lacks substance. Look at Wikipedia’s list of Featured Articles — the highest-quality, most complete articles — and you’ll find only 41 related to chemistry. By comparison, … Continued
Wiki Education Foundation staff members will be attending the American Association of Geographers’ annual meeting this week in San Francisco. We’ll share ways for geography students to connect their learning about the world, with the world. The Wikipedia Year of Science asks scientists to bring knowledge to the public. Students are researching and writing about geography already. When geography instructors assign students to write … Continued
Adam Hyland and I will visit Northeastern University on Thursday, March 24, to present instructors with the opportunity to join the Wikipedia Year of Science. We’ll be joined by Northeastern librarian and Wikipedia contributor Amanda Rust, and Cecelia Musselman of Northeastern’s Writing Program. We’ll offer information about our Classroom Program, in which instructors and students in various fields contribute to and … Continued