I love Wikipedia and the collaborative approach to creation that it represents, but as with any information resource, Wikipedia is not all things to all people. One area where it is problematic for schools is that it contains some content
Welcome to Spokane and NCCE
I just got into Spokane for NCCE, and the weather is beautiful! On the plane on the way here, I put together a quick mashup* of education-related podcasts. It was a lot of fun — there are so many great
Textbooks
I went to an interesting speech by the Director of the USDOE’s Office of Education Technology yesterday. In the presentation, he contrasted textbooks and Wikipedia as information resources. He said that textbooks have “authoritative content,” but face “distribution problems.” (
Wikipedia
I hear a lot of interesting talk at schools these days about Wikipedia. If you aren’t familiar with Wikipedia, it proclaims itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” The conversations about Wikipedia around schools range from schools who