{"id":10890,"date":"2007-11-06T00:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T21:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/traces-of-digital-revolution\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T21:56:55","slug":"traces-of-digital-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/traces-of-digital-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Traces of digital revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The digital world is upon us.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody knows it and nobody ever argues with it anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s too general.\u00c2\u00a0 What is actually changing?\u00c2\u00a0 What are the specific examples?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Today I came across one, while catching up with Slashdot<\/a> news.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a quote from the post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0“An inspired professor at University of Washington-Bothell, Martha Groom, made an interesting pedagogical experiment<\/a>. Instead of vilifying Wikipedia as some academics are prone to do, she assigned the students enrolled in her environmental history course to contribute articles. The result has proven “transformative” to her students. They were no longer spending their time writing for one reader, says Groom, but were doing work of consequence in a “peer reviewed” environment, which enhanced the quality of their output.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you read through the comments to the post, there are many insightful thoughts too.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is one of those<\/a> that I liked (apart from the age criteria):<\/p>\n

Wikipedia should be output, not input, for students past a certain age. It gets them used to writing for real people as opposed to just for getting graded, it gives them the experience of having their writing edited by people of varying abilities, and it gives them motivation for doing research. Another, easier, option would be to assign students to correct Wikipedia articles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another comment<\/a> mentions that this is not by far the first time that this happens.\u00c2\u00a0 It conveniently links to the page with more examples of school and university projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The digital world is upon us.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody knows it and nobody ever argues with it anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s too general.\u00c2\u00a0 What is actually changing?\u00c2\u00a0 What are the specific examples?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Today I came across one, while catching up with Slashdot news.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a quote from the post: \u00c2\u00a0“An inspired professor at University of Washington-Bothell, Martha … Continue reading Traces of digital revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[921,1114,1115,1070,2416,1113,307,1112],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cool","tag-education","tag-experiments","tag-innovation","tag-thoughts","tag-web-20","tag-wiki","tag-wikipedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16165,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/14\/no-more-print-for-encyclopaedia-britannica\/","url_meta":{"origin":10890,"position":0},"title":"No more print for Encyclopaedia Britannica","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"New York Times reports, somewhat sadly, that Encyclopaedia Britannica will not continue with the printed version any more. 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