http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/12/07/jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad/ Effective and Efficient Education Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/12/07/jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-3926 John Rundag Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:32:13 +0000 http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/12/07/jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad/#comment-3926 I believe Jimmy Wales is correct. Teachers should "teach" their students how to research and to evaluate your sources of information. Just because it is on the Internet, does not mean it is true. One instance of this is that ESPN.com reported that LSU football coach Les Miles had accepted the head coaching job at Michigan. This information was false and Coach Miles had to call a meeting with his players and then call a press conference to set the record straight. Teachers need to share all of the resources with their students and then teach them how to assemble all of the information they have acquired. I was working on a computer in our high school library one day and watched a student next to me using Wikipedia to lookup answers on a worksheet. I spent 10 minutes installing some software and she was done before I was. Teachers have to realize that our students are very smart. They will find the simplest and quickest way to get something done. I believe Jimmy Wales is correct. Teachers should “teach” their students how to research and to evaluate your sources of information. Just because it is on the Internet, does not mean it is true. One instance of this is that ESPN.com reported that LSU football coach Les Miles had accepted the head coaching job at Michigan. This information was false and Coach Miles had to call a meeting with his players and then call a press conference to set the record straight. Teachers need to share all of the resources with their students and then teach them how to assemble all of the information they have acquired. I was working on a computer in our high school library one day and watched a student next to me using Wikipedia to lookup answers on a worksheet. I spent 10 minutes installing some software and she was done before I was. Teachers have to realize that our students are very smart. They will find the simplest and quickest way to get something done.

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