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Barbara Lindsey

TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through - 0 views

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    Great overview, explanation and examples of wikis for educational purposes
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Turning links into a library with Diigo - 0 views

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    Great overview of the many benefits to using Diigo to collect, organize and share your bookmarks.
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"What is Schooliness?" - Overview and Open Thread at Beyond School - 0 views

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    From a guest post by C Burell on Wes Fryer's blog
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Explore the world with Google Earth - butterscotch - 0 views

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    Multi-part series that gives a basic overview of Google Earth
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academhack » Blog Archive » Seriously Can We End This Debate Already - 0 views

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  • What you want from a secondary source is a good introduction to a concept, that is mostly reliable, up-to-date, entries for as many topics as possible, connections to where to go to learn more, and easy and ubiquitous (as possible) access. A secondary source is not an in depth analysis which upon reading one is suddenly an expert on said entry or topic, it’s not designed to be. It is just a good overview. No secondary source is going to be completely accurate, or engage in the level of detail and nuance which we want from students, or that is required to fully “know” about a subject.
  • The issue is not that Wikipedia is or is not reliable and thus should be banned in academic environments, rather the issue is that Wikipedia is a secondary source and thus should not be treated as a primary one.
  • Wikipedia has substantial advantages over any prior encyclopedia model.
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  • The breadth of knowledge, its ability to be linked to other knowledge, its cost (free), its up-to-dateness, and its preservation of editorial discussions (it records not only the article but the discussion which produced said article) makes it far more useful. And that doesn’t even begin to address things like how much easier Wikipedia is to use for mash-ups and data extraction, repurposing the information for other reference works.
  • Instead lets talk to students about how appropriately to use secondary sources, how to understand how encyclopedias function, how all encyclopedias are biased, all knowledge is discursive, and focus on teaching students how to judge credibility and accuracy instead of outsourcing it to people at Britannica.
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