While reading another blog this morning I came across a great post from a teacher who is using Wikipedia in the classroom. Oh no we may say, “Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source “and trust me I was that teacher especially after some students told me that Greek Orthodoxy was based off the ancient Greek gods at least according to Wikipedia. But the assignment I found is a great source of comparing sources and can be a first step into a research paper.
Mr. Byrne’s students were asked to compare a Wikipedia articles to three different topics discussed in their textbook, The Sand Creek Massacre, The Battle of Little Big Horn and The Fort Laramie Treaties. Then they were to find primary resources to go along with the articles. For a full briefing of what Mr. Byrne was having his students complete check out his blog complete with the outline he used for his class and encourages others to use.
This is a great assignment because Mr. Byrne moves his students from the Knowledge and Comprehension of the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Model and pushes them to Analysis and Synthesis. Truly a 21st century lesson.
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I think the title of this post should be “Is Wikipedia a reliable source? It might be…” Actually this teacher did not use Wikipedia as a source, he used it as a lesson to compare articles with those in the text book–not as comprehensive information to be used as research. Wikipedia has improved, but still cannot be considered to be reliably reliable.
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