Personally, I have never used Wikipedia as
a resource in the classroom, however, I can see how Wikipedia can be used
effectively. The major pitfall associated with Wikipedia appears to be that
information is ‘crowd sourced’ leading to misinformation as the reliability and
credibility of the author/s is ambiguous. What I can determine as its major
pitfall, is the very reason Wikipedia could be used as an effective resource.
Wikipedia can allow for information literacy skills to be developed as it can
be a resource that is scrutinized, analyzed and evaluated to determine its credibility.
Wikipedia can contain credible and reliable information with additional links
to expand the search criteria of a particular topic and furthermore, Wikipedia
can be used as a collaboration tool for students to complete team research tasks.
While there are people that criticise the citation and use of Wikipedia who are
by far more intelligent than me, I believe if used and modeled correctly, the
positives of Wikipedia far outweigh the stand alone negative characteristics.
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