Wikipedia: (Maybe) Not The Worst I spent quite a while in the camp of educators who believed Wikipedia was a source that students should avoid at all costs. But over the years, my stance has changed a bit. And now,… Read More ›
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Wikipedia and Advocacy
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, is hosting an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The event is designed to train interested people to edit Wikipedia pages with this stated goal: to edit, update, and create Wikipedia articles related… Read More ›
Dive Right in…the Information’s Fine
Mrs. Selinsky just hosted her annual Plagiarism Storytime, complete with cookies and milk. Which can mean only one thing. It’s research paper season! Juniors research learning differences. Sophomores tackle the French Revolution. Eighth and ninth graders explore the seven wonders… Read More ›
Is there more than learning and socializing? Reflections on ALA midwinter
As I shared in a recent post, I enjoy reading (and sometimes participating on) the writing boards at conferences and in libraries. I found the one below on one of the welcome walls at Midwinter in Boston. ALA sponsored conferences… Read More ›
![By nohat silsor (Wikipedia-multilang-poster.it.pdf) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://knowledgequest.aasl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/wiki-120x120.png)
Thinking Outside the (Search) Box – Part 2
In which students get permission to play on Wikipedia! Many of the students I work with have non-verbal learning disorders. This presents a number of learning and social challenges. One of the biggest is that many of the students think… Read More ›