On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have had a number of excellent deep discussions with high school, > college, grade school teachers about Wikipedia and the ones who pay > more attention than "Someone copied the Wikipedia entry as an essay" > generally have a more nuanced and productive view of things. They are > aware we aren't a primary source, and the risks of any secondary > source... Such as Britannica and World Book, too.
One would think from these discussions you might have learned that Wikipedia, Britannica, and World Book are tertiary sources. My wife is a high school teacher, but she doesn't really pay more attention than "Someone copied the Wikipedia entry for their homework". You'd think as a Calculus teacher she wouldn't run into that very often, but actually it happens all the time. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
