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Wikipedia in education - taking stock - OER conference lucerne 2019
Wikipedia in Education: Taking Stock summarizes a conference on using Wikipedia in education. The conference included presentations on the Wikipedia ecosystem, approaches to using Wikipedia in different educational contexts, and workshops sharing experiences. Participants discussed benefits like improving research, writing and collaboration skills, but also challenges like ensuring information quality and overcoming technical barriers. The document outlines typologies of Wikipedia education approaches and shares examples from primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
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- 1. Wikipedia in Education:Taking Stock Iolanda Pensa & Luca Botturi, SUPSI Beat Estermann, Bern University of Applied Sciences OER Conference, Lucerne, 29 January 2019
- 2. Programme Morning Session ● TheWikimedia/Wikipedia Ecosystem ● Wikimedia in Education – An Overview Variety of Approaches (Typology) The Role of Wikimedia in Education Afternoon Session: Workshop ● Short Round of Introduction ● Wikimedia Education – Relating Our Own Experiences Wikipedia in the Classroom (Secondary School) Wikidata Assignments (Tertiary Level) Wikipedia Games (Primary School) ● Benefits of using Wikipedia in education ● Challenges and how to overcome them
- 3. © Bili Bidjocka,Ecriture Infinie, http://www.ecritureinfinie.org.
- 4. Edit Wikipedia. Communicationcampaign in public libraries. Design by Alessandro Serravalle developed within Wikipedia dietro le quinte, 2015 (Bachelor thesis), cc by-sa.
- 5. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACODepartment Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
- 6. The Wikimedia /Wikipedia Family Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge! That’s our commitment.
- 7. Five Pillars ofWikipedia 1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia specific style; notability criteria; no original research 2. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view balanced approach towards controversies; verifiable sources 3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute free copyright licenses 4. Wikipedia’s editors should treat each other with respect and civility seek consensus; assume good faith; no personal attacks 5. Wikipedia has no firm rules be bold!
- 8. « The Sumof All Human Knowledge» in form of Linked Open Data 1. A multilingual database 2. With sourced Statements 3. Freely usable by anyone (CC Zero) 4. An important node of the Semantic Web
- 9. Wiki(m/p)edia in EducationComes in Many Flavours
- 10. Elements of aTypology... - school levels: primary, secondary, tertiary; lifelong learning - institutionalization: curricular, extracurricular - platforms: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, … - formats: exploring; contributing: copyediting, article writing, translating, coding, recording, photographing, graphical design; games, contests - group size: individual assignments, group assignments, class/school projects - class size: 4 - 150 - course subjects: history, art history, literature, writing, technical communication, media studies, chemistry, regional planning and design, nature conversation, translation, ... - time frame: 1-hour, 1-day, week, semester, ... - learning objectives: information retrieval, writing skills, media literacy, critical thinking and research skills, online collaboration, technical and communication skills, ...
- 11. Approach proposed bythe Wiki Education Foundation Wiki Education Foundation https://wikiedu.org/
- 12. Improving the Languageand Style of Wikipedia Articles Source: Case Studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia
- 13. Improving the Contentof Wikipedia Articles Source: Case Studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia
- 14. Translating Wikipedia Articles Source:Case Studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia
- 15. Contributing Photographs andIncluding them in Wikipedia Articles Source: Case Studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia
- 16. Creating Illustrations forWikipedia Articles Source: Case Studies: How professors... (CC BY-SA 3.0) by Yue Guan
- 17. Creating Educational Videos Source:Case Studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia
- 18. Editing Wikipedia andWikidata Photos: Shani Evenstein (CC BY-SA 4.0) “From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0” Undergraduate Course at Tel Aviv University
- 19. Flavours of Wiki(m/p)edia incompulsory education
- 20. Wikipedia as amultimedia content resource “How does a racoon look like?” Handy Safe Controlled Reliable
- 21. Wikipedia as asafe online search environment The Wikipedia scavenger hunt Closed, more stable and controlled but real environment Non-AI search tool
- 22. Wikipedia for creatingspecial class content L’isola dei fake
- 23. Other information literacyactivities Comparing online (wikipedia + web) search with offline search (books, encyclopaedia, vocabulary) Search skills in the practice: identifying keywords, interpreting snippets, searching within a document, etc. Reflecting on different types of online sources (where wikipedia is a kind of its own)
- 24. Wikipedia as areal case of online collaboration How is wikipedia organized? How can 70’000 active contributors work together? What happens if we try editing wikipedia? How shall we organize our class? How do we interact with the community? Thomas Hawk on Flickr.com
- 25. Wikipedia as anoutlet for digital content We worked on a research project… Shall we share the knowledge we produced? Brad Flickinger on Flickr.com
- 26. Thank You! Contact: iolanda.pensa@supsi.ch beat.estermann@bfh.ch luca.botturi@supsi.ch Iolanda Pensa,Beat Estermann, Luca Botturi, Wikipedia in Education, 2019. cc by-sa all. Photo: Lane Hartwell, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- 28. Wikipedia in Education IolandaPensa & Luca Botturi, SUPSI Beat Estermann, Bern University of Applied Sciences OER Conference, Lucerne, 29 January 2019
- 29. Programme ● Short Roundof Introduction ● Wikimedia Education – Relating Our Own Experiences Wikipedia in the Classroom (Secondary School) Wikidata Assignments (Tertiary Level) Wikipedia Games (Primary School) ● Benefits of using Wikipedia in education ● Challenges and how to overcome them
- 30. Elements of aTypology... - school levels: primary, secondary, tertiary; lifelong learning - institutionalization: curricular, extracurricular - platforms: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, … - formats: exploring; contributing: copyediting, article writing, translating, coding, recording, photographing, graphical design; games, contests - group size: individual assignments, group assignments, class/school projects - class size: 4 - 150 - course subjects: history, art history, literature, writing, technical communication, media studies, chemistry, regional planning and design, nature conversation, translation, ... - time frame: 1-hour, 1-day, week, semester, ... - learning objectives: information retrieval, writing skills, media literacy, critical thinking and research skills, online collaboration, technical and communication skills, ...
- 31. Approach proposed bythe Wiki Education Foundation Wiki Education Foundation https://wikiedu.org/
- 33. Wikipedia Primary School,visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. August 2015 March 2016
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- 35. What Teachers Think Insightsfrom a FNS study in South Africa Botturi, L., Van Zyl, I., & Pensa, I. (2017). Wikipedia at School: teachers’ use and perceptions. The Case of South Africa. Proceedings of ICERI 2017, Sevilla, Spain,1148-1157. Language Wikipedia no. of articles English 5’500’000 Afrikaans 47’000 Zulu/Xhosa/ Sesotho < 1’000 Majority, school-texts available Minority, no school-texts available
- 36. What Teachers Think:Use of Wikipedia
- 37. Usefulness of Wikipedia- Perception by language
- 38. Usefulness of Wikipedia- Perception by ICT skills ICT Skills (proxy)
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- 40. Wikidata Assignments @Bern University of Applied Sciences, E-Government Institute Photo: Flickr user: Andrew Bossi Long Beach Island, CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo: Ansgar Koreng, CC BY 3.0
- 41. Assignment Formats &Learning Targets Assignment Formats ● Master of Business Informatics ○ “Cases and Exercises”, in groups of 2-3 students, 85h each ○ “Preliminary Study and Master Thesis”, individual assignment, 90h + 360h ● Gymnasium ○ One-week internship, 40h Learning Targets ● Ontology development (RDF / WD) ● Dealing with terminology issues; creation of multilingual vocabularies ● Data wrangling, data cleansing ● Data publication (WD) ● Querying data (RDF) ● Getting acquainted with the community aspects of LOD publication Not covered so far (possibly more adapted to students of informatics): ● Software development ● Machine learning ● Human-computer interaction
- 42. Insights ● Assignments tostudents with complementary competencies (e.g. software programming) yield the greatest benefits. ● Like with most assignments, there is varying engagement from the side of the students (cf. high workloads in their studies + job). ● Don’t expect anything from students after they have obtained their mark. ● It is worthwhile focusing assignments on community aspects. ● It helps if the supervisor is an active contributor to Wikidata. ● For some tasks, you need to assist students closely (e.g. creation of properties). ● My own role: somewhere between a volunteer putting in my own time and a paid supervisor.
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- 44. Resources on WikimediaOutreach
- 45. Brochures and SupportMaterials
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- 48. Wiki Education Foundation WikiEducation Foundation https://wikiedu.org/
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