Wikipedia & Why It Belongs In Education
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The document discusses the Wikipedia Education Program, which engages students and educators globally in contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as part of their academic work. It highlights the program's impact on enhancing students' skills and the creation of substantial content across various languages and regions. The initiative aims to diversify knowledge sharing and promote free access to information, ultimately benefiting both students and the wider community.
Wikipedia & Why It Belongs In Education
- 1. Wikipedia & Why It Belongs In Education Anna Koval, M.Ed. Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation @msannakoval
- 2. ★ Teacher ★ Librarian ★ Master of Education Who am I and why should you care??
- 3. Who am I and why should you care?? ★ Walt Disney Teacher of the Year Nominee ★ American Library Association Emerging Leader ★ Co-author of the Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools
- 4. Who am I and why should you care?? ★ Wikipedia Education Program ★ Wikimedia Foundation
- 6. Before I tell you what I think about Wikipedia, first let's find out what you think about Wikipedia!
- 7. What is something good about Wikipedia?
- 8. What do you really think about Wikipedia? ;)
- 12. in which every single human being
- 13. can freely share
- 14. in the sum of all knowledge.
- 15. That’s what we do.
- 16. But before I tell you how, first let me tell you why…
- 17. Generation Z.
- 22. The Printed Britannica: 29 volumes, 950 pages each
- 23. The Printed Wikipedia: 7,473 volumes, 700 pages each
- 24. ★ ~½ billion visitors monthly ★ +2 million total editors ★ +77 thousand active editors ★ ~1 thousand very active editors ★ +35.4 million total articles ★ ~8 thousand new articles per day ★ +10 million edits per month ★ ~10 thousand edits per hour Sources: https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ and https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm
- 26. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Core_content_policies
- 28. The idea behind the Wikipedia Education Program is simple: educators and students around the world contribute to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in an academic setting.
- 34. Country Classes Students Bytes added New articles Files uploaded Duration Algeria 1 38 1.5 m - - 1 term Armenia 12 127 21 m 6,609 - 2 years Czech Rep. 3 294 1.8 m 147 - 3 terms Egypt 85 741 31 m - - 5 terms Israel 1 63 2.1 m 217 - 1 class Jordan 10 121 1.4 m - - 3 terms Mexico - 403 7.1 m - 3,019 9 groups Nepal - 14 388 k 55 - 1 term US / Canada 67 9,090 66 m 253 1,381 8 terms
- 35. In China, there are no WikiClubs in schools. Students edit independently. In Winter 2014, high school and university students honored the death of a famous philanthropist. They photographed some of the 6,013 monuments, schools, hospitals, and theaters that he built. CHINA
- 36. In Spring/Summer 2014, students added more than 12 million bytes of new Arabic content. Since 2012, they have translated articles into Arabic from English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish. EGYPT
- 37. In 2013-2014, in Be’er Sheva, 350 excelling/advanced students from 10 9th-grade classes wrote articles about the city and its surrounding areas. This project was a partnership of many people and organizations: Wikimedia Israel, the Ministry of Education, the Municipal Education Director, the senior teachers from all of the secondary schools in the city, and two Wikipedians. ISRAEL
- 38. Lazar is a Serbian high school student studying programming in Belgrade. Lazar and his classmates wrote articles live during the 2014 EduWiki conference for teachers in Belgrade. He convinced the director that their school should participate in the Wikipedia Education Program. Thanks to Lazar, the Wikipedia Education Program is now even more accessible to Serbian high school students. SERBIA
- 39. In Sweden, there is a Wikipedia for children called WikiMini. It is for students 7-13 years old. In Spring 2014, 100 high school students wrote articles about the human body. In Fall 2014, they taught younger children how to edit WikiMini. SWEDEN
- 40. Mexican university students must complete 480 hours of community service in order to graduate. One option at one school is creating content on Wikimedia projects. María is a biotechnology student. She translates biology and medical articles from English to Spanish. MEXICO
- 41. Armenia has 7 WikiClubs and 5 WikiCamps. As of May 2015, students have contributed ⅓ of all the content on Armenian Wikipedia and Armenian Wiktionary! ARMENIA
- 42. Adults who stopped going to school as teenagers can complete their basic education at the Second Chance School in Corfu. In Spring 2015, students learned to edit Wikipedia. They participated in a WikiExpedition then created new articles about Greek villages. Not one student dropped the class. And 4 times as many students want to take this course next term. GREECE
- 43. Since 2014, more than 100 seniors added more than 200,000 bytes of new Czech content. CZECH REPUBLIC
- 45. ★ Who? ★ Where? ★ What? ★ How? ★ How much? ★ Why? The Details...
- 46. The "who" are the people who make up the programs and their partners in this process: ★ Students ★ Educators ★ Volunteers ★ Affiliate groups ★ The Wikimedia Foundation The Who...
- 47. The Where... The "where" are the academic institutions: ★ Universities and colleges ★ Secondary schools ★ Primary schools ★ Adult education ★ Teacher training programs ★ Libraries ★ Local NGOs
- 48. The What... The "what" are the entry points, the Wikimedia projects: ★ Wikipedia ★ Wiktionary ★ Wikiversity ★ Wikibooks ★ Wikisource ★ Wikinews ★ Wikidata ★ Wikimedia Commons
- 49. The How... The "how" are the strategies, the program models: ★ Classroom assignments ★ Extracurricular opportunities (community service) ★ Policy change (government partnerships) ★ Online activities (edit-a-thons, hack-a-thons, contests) ★ Offline activities (clubs, camps, workshops, meetups)
- 50. The How Much... The "how much" or "how many" are the metrics, the numbers, the data: ★ Content quantity (bytes, edits) ★ Content quality (FAs, GAs, DYKs) ★ Participation (current, new, and surviving new users) ★ Contribution (active users and very active users) ★ Reach (programs, projects, languages, countries)
- 51. The Why... The "why" or "for what?" are the reasons, the rationale, the motivation: ★ Diversification: Gender, Geography, Language ★ Contribution: Participation, Collaboration ★ Information: Free, Open Knowledge
- 52. The WOW...
- 53. Students improve their skills in: ★ Reading ★ Writing ★ Research ★ Critical thinking ★ Communication ★ Translation ★ Technical skills ★ Information literacy ★ Media literacy ★ Digital literacy ★ Digital citizenship ★ Copyright ★ Citation ★ Collaboration
- 54. Wikipedia empowers this generation with the skills they need.
- 55. Students gain confidence, voice, and capabilities.
- 56. The world gains free knowledge for all, diversity of voices, conscious citizens.
- 57. This program is global...
- 58. 12,575+ students! 1,707+ teachers! 178+ volunteers! and that's just 16 countries! ❤ education.wikimedia.org ❤
- 59. The impact is real...
- 60. 87,838+ articles created! 1,533+ articles translated! 925+ articles improved! 4,528+ files uploaded! 282,539,283+ bytes added! and that's just 16 countries! ❤ education.wikimedia.org ❤
- 62. Wikipedia helps the world learn.
- 64. ★ wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects ★ wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Answers ★ wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en Resources:
- 65. ★ Toolkit ★ Training ★ Booklets and handouts ★ Rationale ★ Case studies ★ Assignment design ★ Syllabi ★ Instructional videos ★ Further reading Resources: education.wikimedia.org
- 74. Imagine a world in which every single student can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's what you do. THANK YOU!! ❤ education.wikimedia.org
- 75. Thank you
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- 90. JACK ANDRAKA
- 91. WIKIPEDIA ZERO
- 92. WIKIPEDIA EDUCATION PROGRAM AT ITESM IN MEXICO
- 93. WIKIPEDIA EDUCATION PROGRAM AT AYB HIGH SCHOOL
- 94. WIKICAMP 2015
- 95. WIKICAMP 2014