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Saved by 6 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-04-09
- Markuos on 2008-10-02 - Tags wikipedia , jbmurray_madness , jbmurray , murder madness mayhem
- Generoche on 2008-06-23 - Tags Wikis
- Botheredbybees on 2008-06-15 - Tags Wikipedia , collaboration , education , teaching , assessment , classroom , project , wikis , wiki
- Anandthakker on 2008-05-31 - Tags wikipedia , collaboration , edupunk , education , technology , teaching , writing
- Paulreid on 2008-03-24 - Tags collaboration , wikipedia , classroom , web2ls4ed
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in groups, the students should edit (and in a couple of cases create) wikipedia articles
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they should bring these articles up to what in wikipedia parlance is called "featured article" status.
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It is a lamentable fact that, with rare exceptions such as in the Composition classroom, students are seldom motivated to re-read and reflect upon their own work. Indeed, they often scarcely even glance at the comments professors laboriously write up on their work: understandably given that there is usually by this stage no chance to change things further, they are interested in the grade, and that is it. Students seldom learn about the importance of revision to good writing. And yet on wikipedia, revision is (almost) everything: contributors are called editors precisely because their writing is a near-constant state of revision.
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Finally, I liked the notion that the grade that they would receive for this assignment would come from outside the class itself; that their work would be judged by its external impact, and not by the professor's personal judgement (however professional that might be). I declared from the outset that a group that turned its article into a "featured article" would receive an A+, no questions asked; and that groups that achieved "good article" status (a lower hurdle, though good articles still account for only about 0.15% of wikipedia's total) would receive an A. The assignment grade, in other words, would be determined by collective, public, peer review.
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