Upper Grand District School Board Ideashop
April 2011
Teach Wikipedia? First Let’s Learn Wikipedia
Good? Yes.
Bad? Yes.
But that’s not the point.
Do you know how to tell the difference? Assessing the quality of a Wikipedia article, knowing when it’s appropriate to use and when not – that’s the new context for information literacy. And understanding what makes Wikipedia tick provides an extraordinary opportunity for developing understanding of how knowledge is constructed – an essential for developing information fluency.
