Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have had a number of excellent deep discussions with high school, >> college, grade school teachers about Wikipedia and the ones who pay >> more attention than "Someone copied the Wikipedia entry as an essay" >> generally have a more nuanced and productive view of things. They are >> aware we aren't a primary source, and the risks of any secondary >> source... Such as Britannica and World Book, too. >> > > One would think from these discussions you might have learned that > Wikipedia, Britannica, and World Book are tertiary sources. >
What is accomplished by trying to label encyclopedias as tertiary sources? They probably are, but so what? > My wife is a high school teacher, but she doesn't really pay more > attention than "Someone copied the Wikipedia entry for their > homework". You'd think as a Calculus teacher she wouldn't run into > that very often, but actually it happens all the time. I hope that she makes sure that they give Wikipedia proper credit. It seems like a great teaching moment for her. More interesting for us would be why these kids use Wikipedia. Are the authorized proprietary textbooks that bad? Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
