Education Quarterly

Double Entry Journal #4

Quote
- "The Wikipedians sought to make the production of knowledge more transparent to everyday people."
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Response
- I feel this means that Wikipedia is trying to get people to use it for finding knowledge on any subject at any given time. Wikipedia is allowing students to access information to use as background information to start a research paper on a topic. This allows to find out many types of information such as if you want to look up a quick things on a topic to talk about to your friends and have that information at just a click away. Teachers should allow students to use Wikipedia because it is a reliable source or they can even use it as a starting ground of information when starting a paper. Wikipedia is a great site to find information and I would recommend it to anyone.

Video
- this is a video about how amazing Wikipedia is but its a little false because it says anyone can edit information and its always true. This is from the show The Office.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kFBDn5PiL00" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Sources
- Jenkins , H. (2007). What wikipedia can teach us about the new media literacies (part one). Retrieved from http://henryjenkins.org/2007/06/what_wikipedia_can_teach_us_ab.html

- Youtube.com

Wikipedia

a. What is Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization

b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”?By having many people watching what appears there, errors and vandalism will be weeded out, sooner rather than later.

c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? The users because there are so many, the users will find out what should and shouldn't be there.

d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? Because he believed that it should give more authority to the experts.

e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? Not sure because it is discarded very quickly from the site if it does appear.

f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? the encyclopedia is among the top 10 most-visited websites in the world

g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? Because it allows the users to run it and is most likely a reliable source to find information.

h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising? Then they would be making profits from the site and they are a nonprofit company.

i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries? The tool, Wikiscanner, quickly exposed examples of self-interested editing by prominent businesses and governments around the world. Wikipedia's leaders hailed the device as another check on abuse at the site.

 

 

 

I use Wikipedia a lot in my life and it has always been helpful to me and very reliable. I use it when I want to learn more about a TV show or movie, whenever I am talking about a professional athlete and I forget what college they played at, I always go to Wikipedia to find out. Wikipedia is always good to use when you want to find something historical information or just find a fact to tell someone.

 I think the value of Wikipedia for teachers should be very high even though most teachers would disagree, I feel that it benefits the students and it’s an easy and accessible site for students to use. Teachers under estimate the value of Wikipedia because they feel the sources are not reliable. I think the value is very high and teachers need to start using Wikipedia in the classroom.

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My learning style was auditory. Examples of technology that can be used as auditory is that when children are learning to read they can play out words on the computer so they know how to pronounce the word and help them learn to read better. Another example is having the students say out loud what a word is such as if they are learning the state capitals. It will help them remember a lot easier if they say it out loud and also hear it.

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Double Entry Journal #3

Quote
-"Technology can help many students improve their learning capabilities."

Response
-What I got from this quote is that technology continues to help kids learn and make it fun for them. Technology allows students to enjoy learning which would enhance their learning. Students would rather watch a video on a historic event or even look it up on the internet, rather than just sitting there reading it out of a textbook. Eventually all students will be able to use technology more in the classroom such as Ipads will take over textbooks for reading and they will even be able to do their assignments on the Ipads or watch videos about the subject they are learning. It will be like a one stop educational tool.

Video
-This is a video about technology being brought into the schools. This class is testifying in Columbus that they need more technology in the schools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgvw7tj6SM

Sources
- Web 2.0 and emerging learning technologies/learning styles [Web log message]. (2011, May 19). Retrieved from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/Learning_Styles

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Double Entry Journal #2

Quote
-"Technology enhances our ability to manipulate our communication with others."

Response
- This to me tells me how easy it is to access someone that is thousands of miles away. I can talk face to face with my uncle who lives in Texas by using Skype. Texting has almost made phone calls extinct. Communication is one of our most advanced tools today, not only can you play with your friend on xbox live all the way from California, you can also talk to your friend as you are playing together. That type of communication just seems astonishing to me and I wonder how it all is possible. The future might possibly hold new types of communication such as possibly hologram yourself to be right next to someone. Communication is an astonishing field.

Video
- This video is in German I believe it is about putting chips in you to communicate like using a phone. It is a commercial and is suppose to be funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a407qtMg5Pk

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