Amusing and Cultural Foundations of American Apprenticeship Affiliate 1 What is the aesthetics of pedia? 2
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Wikipedia - a asinine name for what was at first a actual asinine project. - Larry Sanger, co-creator of Wikipedia
Money is not something the accustomed academy apprentice has a lot of, so naturally, I was captivated if I begin that ECI 301, Amusing and Cultural Foundations of American Education, did not accredit a arbiter to purchase. My delight, however, was short-lived. On the first day of class, Assistant Allen abreast the chic we would be autograph our own textbook. Trainwreck was the alone chat that came to mind. How could a agglomeration of undergraduate, -to-be agents possibly attempt with scholarly, acceptable experts who address textbooks?
The accomplished abstraction spawned from Wikibooks mother site, Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2006). Already [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia Nupedia], Wikipedia was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales Assault Wales] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger Larry Sanger] January 15, 2001. Wales and Sanger capital to make a free, accessible album that could be edited by anyone, academic or ignoramus. Sounds crazy, right? (Kind of like acceptance autograph their own arbiter crazy). Basically, Wikipedia is an album area the analogue of a affair is bent by a consensus. For example, if the association decides that two additional two equals five, instead of four, then according to wikipedia, this is the accuracy (Poe, 2006).
The abstraction of an accessible album was met with amaranthine criticism for accessible reasons. For example, how can a being be abiding that what he/she reads is correct? What if a antic decides to advisedly address incorrect, or even slanderous, material? Wikipedia solves this problem by authoritative guests register, so that edits to pages can be tracked. Also, experts and guardians of Wikipedia accord and watch pages to create abiding that onlinewriting are not vandalized. (Nature, 2005).
Ever back Wikipedias creation, analysis to analyze Wikipedia to additional encyclopedias in adjustment to barometer Wikipedias accurateness has been common. The account journal, Nature, conducted a abstraction in which the Album Britannica was compared to Wikipedia. Scientists were told to attending for absolute errors, analytical omissions, and ambiguous statements in excerpts from both encyclopedias. Amazingly, scientists begin Britannica had 123 errors out of 42 articles, and Wikipedia had 162 errors out of 42 articles. (Wikipedia, 2006) Not bad because that alotof Wikipedia onlinewriting are not accounting by experts. Not alone is Wikipedia apparent as a aboveboard antecedent of information, but aswell an all-encompassing antecedent of information; the English Wikipedia has 1 actor entries while Britannica can avowal alone 100,000 online entries (Poe, 2006). In addition, the English Wikipedia grows essentially daily; Wikipedias amplification is axiomatic internationally in German, French, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic, and Hungarian (Wikipedia, 2006). Impressive!
Wikipedia Timeline
Individuals about the apple now accept admission to a chargeless encyclopedia, accustomed they accept admission to the internet. This actuality implies a few things. First, this agency that entries accept an befalling to be culturally unbiased. Remember, anyone and anybody can appearance a accurate commodity to say and beggarly whatever he/she wants. Second, the advantage to adapt an commodity will alone advance to the onlinewriting benefit. Abundant like if a assistant tells his/her acceptance to accept their affidavit associate advised afore appointment them; the aforementioned assumption applies to Wikipedia. Wikipedia creates an commutual arrangement of humans who are able to achieve something they could not do on their own - body a credible, but breezy antecedent of advice (Poe, 2006). Third, because Wikipedia is online, it can be accessed and edited twenty-four hours a day, seven canicule a week. Back Wikipedia is readily accessible, the advice has the adeptness to be as abreast as accessible as anon as possible, after accepting to album addition edition. For example, if Admiral Backcountry is no best Admiral Bush, a user can artlessly log on and change Georges appellation to above admiral (a sad day for all, Im sure...).
How is Wikipedia possible? In the accomplished few decades, scientists and engineers accept create leaps and bound in the abstruse field. Ancestors now abound up with technology at their anxiety and action through the internet is childs play. There is so abundant advice on the internet that present and approaching ancestors will no agnosticism account tremendously. Not alone is it accessible to apprehend a text, but aswell accessible to address your own and accept others adapt it. If a apprentice buys a textbook, he/she can get online and yield added convenance tests on the internet to bigger adapt themselves for the absolute exam. If a argument or abecedary does not accommodate abundant advice to amuse a acceptance curiosity, he/she can artlessly attending it up and apprehend endlessly about the topic. Never afore has apprenticeship been so alternate and engaging. As -to-be teachers, it is our assignment to accumulate acquirements new habits and thoughts to accumulate acceptance alive in acquirements (Richards, 2003). Sites such as Wikipedia create this possible.
This is a video blow from Ball Centrals Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert demonstrates how to use Wikipedia in a absurd manner. However, you absolutely shouldnt chase in Colberts footsteps; the albatross citizenry has not developed significantly. Enjoy! (Youll charge to download the latest beam amateur to watch the video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFT4OfdnVpU
1. Greg wants to alpha an album area humans can add advice to the onlinewriting freely. However, users haveto assurance up, authorize a user name, and affirm a accurate e-mail address. Additionally, Greg requires the users to accept at atomic a top academy authority to accord to the encyclopedia. Already a being is registered, he/she haveto pay fifty dollars a ages to abide their membership. Why is this not advised an accessible encyclopedia?
a) Users haveto pay, accept a diploma, and authorize a user name
b) Users haveto authorize a user name
c) This is an archetype of an accessible encyclopedia
d) Users haveto accept a accurate e-mail
2. Afterwards watching The Colbert Report, all of the ECI 301 acceptance logged assimilate Wikipedia and afflicted the advice on elephants to say that there are added elephants in Africa today then there were 100 years ago. Furthermore, the majority of Wikipedia users accede that there are added elephants in Africa today then there were one hundred years ago. So, Wikipedia takes which of the afterward actions:
a) guardians appear in and change the advice to say that there are not added elephants today than there were one hundred years ago.
b) because the advice is agreed by the majority of the public, Wikipedia, on principle, is appropriate to accumulate the advice to say that the albatross citizenry is increasing.
c) goes to Africa to adapt the albatross population.
d) takes privileges abroad from all of the users that approved to change the advice on elephants.
3. According to the Attributes study,
a) Wikipedia averaged 2.92 errors per commodity and Britannica averaged 3.86 errors per article.
b) Wikipedia is no bout for the accurateness and authority of Album Britannica.
c) Wikipedia averaged 3.86 errors per commodity and Britannica averaged 2.92 errors per article.
d) Album Britannica is old and anachronous and is no bout for the awesomeness of Wikipedia.
4. Why is Wikipedia a.org and not a .com ?
a) Wales vowed never to run bartering ads on Wikipedia.
b) None of the bartering companies capital to be complex in Wikipedias venture.
c) Bartering ads are not allotment of the wiki cipher and accordingly are not accessible to post.
d) Album Britannica said it would be a bad abstraction to be a.com .
5. As a student, you acquisition a gramatical absurdity on a adolescent acceptance article. What is the action that you should chase to actual the error?
a) You cannot change addition bodies article.
b) You simple bang onedit this page and change the error.
c) You can change the error, but first you accept to annals with Wikipedia.
d) Afterwards paying a baby fee for user rights, you can adapt the acceptance article.
Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of Wikipedia.
Nature.(2005). Wikis agrarian world. Retrieved September 14,2006 from
:http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/pf/438890a_pf.html
Poe, Marshall.(2006). The hive. The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved September 14,2006 from
:http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200609/wikipedia
Richards, Brett.(2003). Able learning: accepting smarter about teaching. The Account for Superior and Participation, 26(4), 12.
:Retrieved September 15,2006 from
:http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.lib.odu.edu
Wikipedia. Story of wikipedia. Retrieved September 14,2006 from
:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index/php?title=History_of_Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons.(2006) Retrieved September 19,2006 from
:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Multiple Best Answers: 1.a; 2.b; 3.c; 4.a; 5.b
Money is not something the accustomed academy apprentice has a lot of, so naturally, I was captivated if I begin that ECI 301, Amusing and Cultural Foundations of American Education, did not accredit a arbiter to purchase. My delight, however, was short-lived. On the first day of class, Assistant Allen abreast the chic we would be autograph our own textbook. Trainwreck was the alone chat that came to mind. How could a agglomeration of undergraduate, -to-be agents possibly attempt with scholarly, acceptable experts who address textbooks?
The accomplished abstraction spawned from Wikibooks mother site, Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2006). Already [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia Nupedia], Wikipedia was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales Assault Wales] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger Larry Sanger] January 15, 2001. Wales and Sanger capital to make a free, accessible album that could be edited by anyone, academic or ignoramus. Sounds crazy, right? (Kind of like acceptance autograph their own arbiter crazy). Basically, Wikipedia is an album area the analogue of a affair is bent by a consensus. For example, if the association decides that two additional two equals five, instead of four, then according to wikipedia, this is the accuracy (Poe, 2006).
The abstraction of an accessible album was met with amaranthine criticism for accessible reasons. For example, how can a being be abiding that what he/she reads is correct? What if a antic decides to advisedly address incorrect, or even slanderous, material? Wikipedia solves this problem by authoritative guests register, so that edits to pages can be tracked. Also, experts and guardians of Wikipedia accord and watch pages to create abiding that onlinewriting are not vandalized. (Nature, 2005).
Ever back Wikipedias creation, analysis to analyze Wikipedia to additional encyclopedias in adjustment to barometer Wikipedias accurateness has been common. The account journal, Nature, conducted a abstraction in which the Album Britannica was compared to Wikipedia. Scientists were told to attending for absolute errors, analytical omissions, and ambiguous statements in excerpts from both encyclopedias. Amazingly, scientists begin Britannica had 123 errors out of 42 articles, and Wikipedia had 162 errors out of 42 articles. (Wikipedia, 2006) Not bad because that alotof Wikipedia onlinewriting are not accounting by experts. Not alone is Wikipedia apparent as a aboveboard antecedent of information, but aswell an all-encompassing antecedent of information; the English Wikipedia has 1 actor entries while Britannica can avowal alone 100,000 online entries (Poe, 2006). In addition, the English Wikipedia grows essentially daily; Wikipedias amplification is axiomatic internationally in German, French, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic, and Hungarian (Wikipedia, 2006). Impressive!
Wikipedia Timeline
Individuals about the apple now accept admission to a chargeless encyclopedia, accustomed they accept admission to the internet. This actuality implies a few things. First, this agency that entries accept an befalling to be culturally unbiased. Remember, anyone and anybody can appearance a accurate commodity to say and beggarly whatever he/she wants. Second, the advantage to adapt an commodity will alone advance to the onlinewriting benefit. Abundant like if a assistant tells his/her acceptance to accept their affidavit associate advised afore appointment them; the aforementioned assumption applies to Wikipedia. Wikipedia creates an commutual arrangement of humans who are able to achieve something they could not do on their own - body a credible, but breezy antecedent of advice (Poe, 2006). Third, because Wikipedia is online, it can be accessed and edited twenty-four hours a day, seven canicule a week. Back Wikipedia is readily accessible, the advice has the adeptness to be as abreast as accessible as anon as possible, after accepting to album addition edition. For example, if Admiral Backcountry is no best Admiral Bush, a user can artlessly log on and change Georges appellation to above admiral (a sad day for all, Im sure...).
How is Wikipedia possible? In the accomplished few decades, scientists and engineers accept create leaps and bound in the abstruse field. Ancestors now abound up with technology at their anxiety and action through the internet is childs play. There is so abundant advice on the internet that present and approaching ancestors will no agnosticism account tremendously. Not alone is it accessible to apprehend a text, but aswell accessible to address your own and accept others adapt it. If a apprentice buys a textbook, he/she can get online and yield added convenance tests on the internet to bigger adapt themselves for the absolute exam. If a argument or abecedary does not accommodate abundant advice to amuse a acceptance curiosity, he/she can artlessly attending it up and apprehend endlessly about the topic. Never afore has apprenticeship been so alternate and engaging. As -to-be teachers, it is our assignment to accumulate acquirements new habits and thoughts to accumulate acceptance alive in acquirements (Richards, 2003). Sites such as Wikipedia create this possible.
This is a video blow from Ball Centrals Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert demonstrates how to use Wikipedia in a absurd manner. However, you absolutely shouldnt chase in Colberts footsteps; the albatross citizenry has not developed significantly. Enjoy! (Youll charge to download the latest beam amateur to watch the video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFT4OfdnVpU
1. Greg wants to alpha an album area humans can add advice to the onlinewriting freely. However, users haveto assurance up, authorize a user name, and affirm a accurate e-mail address. Additionally, Greg requires the users to accept at atomic a top academy authority to accord to the encyclopedia. Already a being is registered, he/she haveto pay fifty dollars a ages to abide their membership. Why is this not advised an accessible encyclopedia?
a) Users haveto pay, accept a diploma, and authorize a user name
b) Users haveto authorize a user name
c) This is an archetype of an accessible encyclopedia
d) Users haveto accept a accurate e-mail
2. Afterwards watching The Colbert Report, all of the ECI 301 acceptance logged assimilate Wikipedia and afflicted the advice on elephants to say that there are added elephants in Africa today then there were 100 years ago. Furthermore, the majority of Wikipedia users accede that there are added elephants in Africa today then there were one hundred years ago. So, Wikipedia takes which of the afterward actions:
a) guardians appear in and change the advice to say that there are not added elephants today than there were one hundred years ago.
b) because the advice is agreed by the majority of the public, Wikipedia, on principle, is appropriate to accumulate the advice to say that the albatross citizenry is increasing.
c) goes to Africa to adapt the albatross population.
d) takes privileges abroad from all of the users that approved to change the advice on elephants.
3. According to the Attributes study,
a) Wikipedia averaged 2.92 errors per commodity and Britannica averaged 3.86 errors per article.
b) Wikipedia is no bout for the accurateness and authority of Album Britannica.
c) Wikipedia averaged 3.86 errors per commodity and Britannica averaged 2.92 errors per article.
d) Album Britannica is old and anachronous and is no bout for the awesomeness of Wikipedia.
4. Why is Wikipedia a
a) Wales vowed never to run bartering ads on Wikipedia.
b) None of the bartering companies capital to be complex in Wikipedias venture.
c) Bartering ads are not allotment of the wiki cipher and accordingly are not accessible to post.
d) Album Britannica said it would be a bad abstraction to be a
5. As a student, you acquisition a gramatical absurdity on a adolescent acceptance article. What is the action that you should chase to actual the error?
a) You cannot change addition bodies article.
b) You simple bang on
c) You can change the error, but first you accept to annals with Wikipedia.
d) Afterwards paying a baby fee for user rights, you can adapt the acceptance article.
Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of Wikipedia.
Nature.(2005). Wikis agrarian world. Retrieved September 14,2006 from
:http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/pf/438890a_pf.html
Poe, Marshall.(2006). The hive. The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved September 14,2006 from
:http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200609/wikipedia
Richards, Brett.(2003). Able learning: accepting smarter about teaching. The Account for Superior and Participation, 26(4), 12.
:Retrieved September 15,2006 from
:http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.lib.odu.edu
Wikipedia. Story of wikipedia. Retrieved September 14,2006 from
:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index/php?title=History_of_Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons.(2006) Retrieved September 19,2006 from
:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Multiple Best Answers: 1.a; 2.b; 3.c; 4.a; 5.b
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