The FIS

Wikijunior for ES
Use the Talk Page
Wikipedia’s Good Article criteria
Wikipedia’s Quality Scale
Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula
Wikipedia better than a history textbook
Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?

Wikipedia is arguably subject to more rigorous review practices than are many scholarlypublications.

ACTIVITY

Principles of connectivism:

Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.
Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

How do you get students to create?

Hypothesize/Predict
Brita Water Filter