5.5 Plan your edits in a Wikipedia Article ~90mins
Build your Wikipedia Editing Skills.
PURPOSE OF THE TASK: This task helps build your editing skills in Wikipedia
TECHNOLOGY: For this task you will use the Wikipedia Education FLOf 2019 Classroom space as well as navigate within your own Wikipedia account.
INSTRUCTIONS:
STEP 1: Do the four training activities assigned for this week.
STEP 2: Choose an article that you want to improve. You can either assign yourself an article from the list of suggestions in the Wikipedia Education Classroom or find one that interests you outside of the suggestion.
STEP 3: What improvements does this article need?
STEP 4: Find resources that you want to use as part of your edits.
STEP 5: Start drafting at least one edit in your sandbox. Make sure to have completed all 5 steps by Sunday, November 3, 2019 by midnight.
TEACHING INTENTIONS:
Students need to learn to manoeuvre the ever-changing digital landscape in order to make deliberate use of its potential instead of falling pray to misinformation and data-harvesting. A collaborative Wikipedia assignment tasking students to either write a new or edit an existing article, add multimedia or translate existing resources can be a method to teach your students a number of the skills that are essential in the digital age, such as for instance writing skills, media information literacy, critical thinking and research and collaboration, all while contributing and improving the informational resources that the Wikipedia Encyclopedia compiles. (Wikipedia, 2013)
Wikipedia: Training/For educators/Resources. (2013). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Training/For educators/Resources&oldid=557862048
