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The Academic Value of Wikipedia & Digital Literacy
In the ongoing debate about Wikipedia and it’s value/use in the classroom, David Parry, author of the blog academHacK and “professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas” wades in. Writing for science progress, Parry takes a look at: “Wikipedia and the New Curriculum: Digital Literacy Is Knowing How We Store What We Know.”
He doesn’t pull any punches as he explains in his opening graph:
Whenever I read an article about an educational institution “banning” Wikipedia I make a point to add this school to a list for future reference. This list serves two purposes: it gives me a list of schools at which I am not likely to work anytime soon (I am a professor of Emerging Media), and it gives me a list of educational institutions which I advise students to avoid.
To find out the rest of his thoughts, and why he places so much value on Wikipedia: “Wikipedia and the New Curriculum: Digital Literacy Is Knowing How We Store What We Know.”
— michael | February 15, 2008 09:50 AM | The more you know
