http://www.dennisharter.com/blog/2007/03/20/the-resilient-power-of-common-sense-wikipedia-in-the-economist/ (formerly Thinking Allowed) Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:36:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.dennisharter.com/blog/2007/03/20/the-resilient-power-of-common-sense-wikipedia-in-the-economist/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Thinking Allowed. » Blog Archive » Wikipedia is a learning tool Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:35:45 +0000 http://dharter.edublogs.org/2007/03/20/the-resilient-power-of-common-sense-wikipedia-in-the-economist/#comment-5 [...] I posted on this topic a little while ago as well. In addition to Wikipedia being an incredibly accurate source on the large scale, it is a terrific conversation starter with students about source accuracy, a participatory web, and about collaboration. These are 21st century learning skills that we acknowledge, yet we avoid these conversations every time we block a site (like wikipedia) or deny it’s use by students. [...] [...] I posted on this topic a little while ago as well. In addition to Wikipedia being an incredibly accurate source on the large scale, it is a terrific conversation starter with students about source accuracy, a participatory web, and about collaboration. These are 21st century learning skills that we acknowledge, yet we avoid these conversations every time we block a site (like wikipedia) or deny it’s use by students. [...]

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