User:MartinPoulter/Education
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- Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility
- Was introducing Wikipedia to the classroom an act of madness leading only to mayhem if not murder?
- Wikipedia makes students better, Physorg.com
- Futurelab on how school pupils react to wikis
- Ollie Bray on Wikipedia in the classroom
- A nice 6-minute video explaining "behind the scenes" of Wikipedia
- An even more basic video to explain the concept of a wiki (4 minutes)
- Verifiability and Neutral Point of View (2 minute video) (Youtube link)
- Educational assignments using Wikipedia
- School projects seem to use Wikibooks instead, where there are fewer restrictions on what you can write
- A more lightweight output of an educational project could be something like a diagram
- Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) for teachers (cover accuracy, potentially offensive content and so on)
- "Is Wikipedia Trustworthy?" Four-minute video aimed at school childern and featuring Wikipedia contributors, describing how Wikipedia is written and why many teachers don't allow its use as a source
