{"id":522,"date":"2007-12-07T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/07\/jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T14:04:17","slug":"jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/07\/jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Says Wikipedia Good&#8230; Teachers Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1306\/924150183_fd268df6fb_m.jpg\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 160px; height: 240px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7130325.stm\">Jimmy Wales<\/a>, founder of Wikipedia says that teachers who don&#8217;t let students use Wikipedia are &#8220;bad educators&#8221;.\u00a0 He says that new editing and checking procedures have made Wikipedia more trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Try to edit the article for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>.\u00a0 The edit tab has been removed.\u00a0 Notice the lock in the top-right corner of the article.\u00a0 To modify this particular resource, you must first login.\u00a0 This is one of the measures that has been incorporated to protect articles from vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>I think there are two valuable components to Wikipedia.\u00a0 One is the shear volume of information.\u00a0 The second is the external references to\u00a0supporting information.\u00a0 The combination almost guarantees something about almost any topic with a link to an authoritative site.<\/p>\n<p>One of the 21st century skills that our students need is to be able to determine what is authoritative and what is not.\u00a0 Wikipedia is the perfect place to develop this skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia says that teachers who don&#8217;t let students use Wikipedia are &#8220;bad educators&#8221;.\u00a0 He says that new editing and checking procedures have made Wikipedia more trustworthy. Try to edit the article for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 The edit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/07\/jimmy-says-wikipedia-good-teachers-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[336,340,2],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}