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Education-related dimension of «Smart Region» project.

Instructor Basics How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool

Integration into Education is possible through

• Using Wikimedia projects as platforms for
  • creation and improvement of thematic articles on Wikimedia projects instead of regular coursework papers
  • presenting results of other appropriate individual or group projects, etc.
• Using collectively generated Wikimedia projects hosted content for developing critical perception of various phenomena

Reasons

International experience shows that students enjoy editing Wikipedia more than similar assignments elsewhere. Wiki in Education is used in over 90 countries, because students:

• improve own self-esteem, confidence in own competencies and are readier for independent decision-making
• develop productive IT use skills
• learn to express themselves in front of the global audience
• enriches their teamwork and collaboration skills
• get used to independent work with information (assessing its reliability, quality, critical consideration of used argumentation)
• are better prepared to be active members of knowledge economy, where they will be generating new information and knowledge
• are exposed to importance of multilingualism and multiculturalism of our world
• are getting used and better prepared to facing variety of conflicts existing in the surrounding world
• are incentivized to look for continuous learning opportunities
• etc.

Examples

• Most widely used at vocational or university level
  • Wiki Education Foundation covers North America (U.S. & Canada)
  • Russia has some experience in using in a number of colleges in Moscow and at Petrozavodsk State University
• Greek teachers & Wikimedians have proven practical success in using similar methods with:
  • 8 year olds, as well as
  • vulnerable groups of people
• French teachers working with middle and high school kids stated that Developing Wiki-skills is even more important than coding, the latter acknowledged as necessary to almost every individual in artificial intelligence era
• Armenia's Wiki-volunteers have developed a global Armenian Educational movement with their camps and school Wiki-Clubs experience being valuable for people from all over the world.
  • On rural WikiClub in a mountainous region settlement of 1857
  • Speaking at Wikimedia Russia Conferences (in Russian)
    • Saint-Petersburg 2016
    • Moscow 2017
• Ukrainian Wiki-volunteers on Wiki in Education influencing motivation to study - as teacher becomes a guide in the exciting adventure in the world of knowledge with kids and their team members being the key characters of the quest (in Russian)
  • History teacher
  • School principal
  • Rural librarian
  • uaWP Physics portal volunteer, Ph.D. in Physics
• International team studies Using Wiki as a Tool for generating educational content to teach Primary School program in a small indigenous language community's mothertongue
• Colleagues from Basque country successfully use similar project to generate middle and high-school content (12-16 y.o.) in collaboration with the local university

Kinds of activities

• Critical reading
• Editing existing material
  • Correcting factual data
  • Adding descriptive material
• Creation of new material
  • Translation from other language versions
  • Independent search for sources and description of knowledge

Spaces

См. также: Умный регион/Направления/en#By Wikimedia project

• Wikipedia — среда создания свободных текстовых материалов энциклопедического содержания
• Wikidata — свободная машиночитаемая база знаний с многоязычными подписями
• Wikimedia Commons — хранилище свободных медиафайлов
• Wikibooks — среда для совместного создания свободных руководств и методических инструкций
• Wikiversity — среда для совместного развития свободных образовательных программ
• Wikinews — среда для совместного написания новостных заметок под свободными лицензиями
• Wikiquote — среда для совместного сбора цитат под свободными лицензиями
• Wikisource — среда для сбора опубликованных источников, находящихся в общественном достоянии или под свободными лицензиями
• Wikivoyage — среда для сбора опубликованных источников, находящихся в общественном достоянии или под свободными лицензиями

Reference materials

• Wikimedia Education Program Russia (in Russian)
• Russian Wikiversity course: "Working on wiki illustrated with examples from Russian Wikipedia" / to Contents (in Russian)
• Wikimedia Education portal / News bulletin / Sample Article -

How we defined what secondary education students need

• Wikipedia & Education User Group
• Programme of the first Wikimedia+Education Conference (2019)
• Training modules for teachers
• December 2017 Italian Education Community magazine fully dedicated to cases of using Wikipedia as Educational projects platform
• Wikipedia in Education - Wikibook in French
• Wikipedia Education Program category on Wikimedia Commons
• "Integrating Wikipedia into Teaching Courses" article from The Chronicle of Higher Education & a Fall'2011 Children's Literature course page mentioned therein
• Using Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Tips and Best Practices from a Wiki-expert

Thematic mailing lists, pages and social media groups

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
• https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/
• https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikimediaEducation/

See also

• List of competencies necessary for systemic use of Wikimedia projects in Education
• Step-by-step guide on using Wikimedia projects' offered opportunities for Education purposes
• Pageview Statistics for the page

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