Wikipedia Redux Using Wikipedia in OneShots and Credit

Wikipedia Redux: Using Wikipedia in One-Shots and Credit Courses LILAC June 7, 2019 Monica Berger New York City College of Technology

I’m obsessed

with how I can teach with Wikipedia

Wikipedia and one-shots

What I’ve done in the past/ English Comp I and II • No true active learning • Lots of show and discuss • “bridge to the library” transition to One. Search … implicit and explicit but often implicit

Show + discuss CC BY 2. 0 by UWGB Cofrin Library https: //flic. kr/p/7 e. HYjc

What I’ve done in the past/ English Comp I and II Tricky to discuss big topics like authority

What I’ve done in the past/ credit course

What I would do differently Learning Places (interdisciplinary course) 2017 -18 Compare Brooklyn Bridge Wikipedia article to Ken Burns film they just saw (only as discussion) Activity sheet with questions to guide them or simple worksheet to respond and hand in to instructor

Learning Places Unit fall 2019 • Reflections • Group work on Wikipedia rubric (AL) • Fuller connection to One. Search/library resources • Encyclopedia of NYC article on neighborhood, one newspaper article from Wikipedia • compare and contrast • T-s-p on Wikipedia vs. library

Learning Places Unit fall 2019 New idea Active learning with worksheet to evaluate and “audit” references • Gives students a sense of what kind of research can be done on a neighborhood • Break into teams • Assign citations by NOTE number in Wikipedia article

Type of source? Could involve counting how many of each in team efforts For Learning Places, helps students get a sense of the kind of data one uses for place-based research Author of source (who wrote it? ) Currency (how up to date) of source Authority of source Book Newspaper article Magazine article Website Blog post Social media Government information: data Other source: data Academic/professor Journalist Non-professional writer Creative (artist, musician, etc. ) Anonymous (no author given) Other (explain) Current Not current Not sure (explain) Original research Cites original research Uses other evidence Creative work: evidence not needed Not sure (explain)

Full teaching of Learning Places, Spring 2020 Lighter • Media Wikipedia Heavier • High-stakes class project, editing a page

50 minute black box English comp one-shot activity • Modified version of worksheet for Learning Places? • Finding known items (books and newspaper articles) found in Wikipedia in ONESEARCH • Using the rubric in "talk" and looking at different graded articles

Your Wikipedia activities in one-shots?

thank you Monica Berger mberger@citytech. cuny. edu