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 OneSearch … implicit and explicit but often implicit

Show + discuss Show and discuss Google results box Stubs and “citation needed” pages “choice of language” for title of page vs. how we searched for it “take a knee” is covered under “U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present)” in Wikipedia Introduction and organization of page via table of contents Attribution  Citations and bibliography The “talk” tab Who contributes and why Open conversations/debates about knowledge creation Categories Ratings of the article found under CATEGORIES!!! (The view history tab) usually not The editorial process Popular topics … why Wikipedia CC BY 2.0 by UWGB Cofrin Library https://flic.kr/p/7eHYjc

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 Compare Brooklyn Bridge article to Ken Burns film they just saw (only as discussion) Digging deeper into ratings in CATEGORIES Stubs to show weak articles Click hyperlink for stub  pick architecture for e.g.s Ask students why the e.g. is a stub Students explore their own stubs Reflective journaling

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 OneSearch/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 Book Newspaper article Magazine article Website Blog post Social media Government information: data Other source: data Author of source (who wrote it?) Academic/professor Journalist Non-professional writer Creative (artist, musician, etc.) Anonymous (no author given) Other (explain) Currency (how up to date) of source Current Not current Not sure (explain) Authority of source Original research Cites original research Uses other evidence Creative work: evidence not needed

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 Cartoon by Randall Munroe (en:User:Xkcd) - http://xkcd.com/285/, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2817512