Vojta, Thanks for sharing. Congrats on the success you're having so far! Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here!
Jami On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Vojtěch Dostál <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > Vahid asked me to sum up the organization of the #EduWiki campaign in the > Czech Republic. First, we decided that it is our long-term goal to attract > primary and secondary school pupils to Wikipedia. This is because most > people started editing Wikipedia at early age. We don't think that teaching > edit Wikipedia is really efficient, because most are unable to produce a > good quality article without us helping a lot. Rather, we'd like them to > learn *about *Wikipedia and how it is written. Teachers can use Wikipedia > as a cool example on which they can improve their pupils' *digital > literacy*. Because teaching digital literacy is a priority of the Czech > government, this proved as an achievable goal in the long-term. We called > this campaign Teach (with) Wiki > <https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:U%C4%8D_(s)_Wiki>. > > We prepared drafts of *lesson plans*, a bit different from the ones > prepared by WMF but they do take some inspiration from them. This is not > because the plans written by WMF are trash, but rather because we wanted to > write something exceptional that will lay foundations to something bigger > (read on). > > But we knew we needed *allies*. We contacted our friends in EDUin (an NGO > promoting innovation in education) who have experience with contacting > media and educational institutions and together prepared a press release > and organized a press conference. This helped us to spread the idea which > really attracted attention (about 10 articles in press TV and radio). We > were invited by the Ministry of Education to talk about our idea and they > will help us improve it and spread the word. We are still polishing the > three 45-minute lesson plans but once they are all out, they will be public > and hopefully also translated into English at some point. Also we hope to > attract teachers to try using them in their lessons as early as this year. > > Next year, we want to register "Wikipedia and teaching digital literacy" > in the formal governmental *system of postgradual teachers education* so > that we can organize accredited course and gain (governmental or EU) > financial support for them. This is a way to get Wikipedia to many teachers > in primary and secondary school and thus to their pupils. Some of these > pupils may be so intrigued by Wikipedia that they start editing it, who > knows? We definitely want to devise methods to find this out > retrospectively. > > I hope you find this interesting, > > cheers > > Vojtěch Dostál > > předseda rady / chair of the board > Wikimedia Česká republika | http://www.wikimedia.cz > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter > <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/b--eXr> > > > _______________________________________________ > education-collab mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education-collab > > -- Jami Mathewson Educational Partnerships Manager Wiki Education Foundation [email protected] <[email protected]> User:Jami (Wiki Ed) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jami_(Wiki_Ed)> @WikiEducation <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation> wikiedu.org/partnerships/
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