Good job :) Students are getting to know more about wikipedia. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia < mahit...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi all, > > 12.05 pm 13th Jan 2012 ,Principal's Cabin at Abasaheb Prashala Day School > near 15August Square Rastapeth Pune ; A visibly anoyed mother with her > middle school son visits principal to discuss her sons school absentism > the mother informs sons father is expired five years ago , She is working > as home maid at some middle class families and making a living; Principal > does her job very well ; seems such situations are quite regular and routin > to the principal madam. > > 12.15-12.30 School prayer And at 12.30 bell Wikipedia Academy -Sans any > projector or laptop only help available is the black board , a chalk and a > duster- begins in Standard 8A aprox 35-40 students (An equal mix of girls > and boys) > > > Students are asked to show their hands to find out what do they know about > internet only one hand comes up and rest of the faces are blank and now > the Wikipedian knows the challenge at hand. Mind the fact that the day > before School teacher informs that Wikipedia is part of School syllabus in > english language for 8th standard since 1999 usually he teaches the first > page of the lesson the rest of the pages can not be given justice without > internet support (for aprox 20,00,000 every year ) students across > Maharashtra .The class goes ahead the wikipedians requests to make stack of > all their books on a table and request for a Home Work note book with a > promis that it will not be opened, one girl gets convinced and provides the > same . > > Childern smartly give different different answers when asked what is their > in their bunch of school books , Most of them say "study" one Student > answers as Mahiti ie.information and a shy girl answers as Knowldge.The > students know that knowledge available in bunch of school is limited and > there on concept of encyclopedia is explained the word they never heared > before, they answer smartly the wikipedian explains By now children are > getting in interactive mode discussion goes about curiosity information and > knowldge . Without any teaching aid demo laptop how do one explains what is > internet ? Luckily children knew about computers So with crude examples a > book was a web portal and pages ther in were web pages and then rest of > internet story without internet at hand .(May be few schools in rural areas > still wont have computers too and wont know how a teacher explains what is > Computer) > > Now the student who provided Home Work note book is asked What will be her > reaction if not herself but other students from the class write her home > work note book turn by turn ,The entire class of students smiles freely > and a smile comes even on the face of the class teacher , who was very > patiantly sitting in last row of the class for wikipedia academy. > > Wikipedia home page is drawn on black-board and The black board itself is > edit window . When asked any doubts faces blank, about a thing they never > saw what doubts they will ask ? But when asked what is Wikipedia ? a girl > student Laxmi stands up and answers what she understood to her best about > wikipedia in learned in Wiki academy Students are requested to clap for her > correct answer and a chorus of clapps begins !! > > Later Principal agrees to importance of introduction to internet and > informs about their schools steps to upgradation of computer lab > infrastructure , After a cup of tea with the class teacher,the Wikipedia > leaves school premises for next meeting. > > Before one day that is on 12th Jan we receive info that a pilot project in > some of Maharashtra schools will be extended from coming academic year to > all schools mandatorily along with practical unicode Marathi typing and > internet , with a chance to explore further collaboration for marathi > language wikisource and school board . > > > Rgds > -Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- * *Thanks n Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang * * _______________________________________________ * * Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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