Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia | ZDNet - 0 views
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Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10"This plea doesn't apply to the teachers (or administrators, for that matter) who have figured out that Wikipedia is an incredible knowledge store, cornucopia of primary sources, and go-to site for most the free world. Rather, this plea is for those who, instead of teaching students about Internet site credibility, fact checking, verification, and crowdsourcing, choose to simply prohibit the use of Wikipedia."
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Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10Interesting blog post that explains the sillyness behind filtering Wikipedia from students doing classroom research.