From the Idea10 conference: http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/idea10/events/ideaOpenForum.html Melbourne, 11 March. Video of session is here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5351731 I'm the third speaker.

1. Learning futures:
technology challenges
2010 - Melbourne
Handing out paints
Liam Wyatt

2. If people were passing out paints on the street for free every
day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.
- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk)
in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”
knowledge
If people were passing out paints on the street for free every
day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.
learning

5. Good way to encourage
informal learning:
Hand out paints
then ban painting?

8. my first edit

9. Like your friendly local
altruistic drug dealer

10. Common Blockers 1
• Copyright
We do the work so you don’t have to.
No advertising, no royalties, no permissions, by
volunteers worldwide for the love of learning.
CAL can get knotted.
GRATIS LIBRE

11. Common Blockers II
• Ambivalence & Distain
“We don’t like it because it’s on the web.
Oh, we didn’t mean that. Obviously there’s things on
the web that are good.
We don’t like it because it’s not peer reviewed.
Oh, we didn’t mean that, it’s obviously peer reviewed,
just not by peers we like.”

12. Formal learning with
Wikipedia is also possible
• Have a class read and review an article
• Gather references for the text of an existing article
• Debate the discussion archive of a contentious article
• Groups improve an article over a term and report back
• Compare articles across languages/time/publication

13. But make sure to publish your experiences!
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
wikipedia:School_and_university_projects
[[WP:SUP]]

14. Teach kids to
Practice safe Wikipedia

15. Thank you.
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