Wikipedia in the academic world: the Google Generation and teacher strategies for knowledge building.

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Wikipedia in the academic world: the Google Generation and teacher strategies for knowledge building.
Presenter	Lila Pagola
Themes	Education
About the presenter
Lila Pagola has a Bachelor degree on Engraving at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, a Photography Expertise at the applied arts Spilimbergo School, and is a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Villa María (Design and multi-media workshop professorship)and the Spilimbergo School.
Abstract
This presentation analyses the problem around the students' ways of searching and validating information of university level (included within the so-called “Google Generation”), through a practical case that took place in 2007, repeated in 2008 and 2009. In the analysed case, the students' task was to create content for Wikipedia, to understand how it works first hand, and to validate the academic production outside the school, against external observers (the librarians watching for copyright issues, quality of redaction, the academic quotation, etc.). This processes took place at the same time as the contribution of new contents to Wikipedia in a knowledge area less represented than others (as is the history of photography), resulting in articles that are today within the first results of search engines. At last, but very important is the fact that contributions were made from a public school to a global project of free knowledge.
Language	Spanish
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