I alerted the students in my Western Civ course to the decision by the folks at Middlebury College to ban Wikipedia from being cited in essays. Here’s what some of my students had to say in response.
Tag: Wikis
Why I Won’t Get Hired at Middlebury
Oh my. It’s a good thing I’m not a finalist for a job at Middlebury College, because my decision to assign the Wikipedia as the textbook in my Western Civ course this semester flies in the face of a decision the History Department there has made to ban students from citing Wikipedia in any of…
Wikipedia in the Classroom
Two weeks ago I was in a meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities and Bruce Cole, Chairman of the Endowment, asked those in attendance what we thought about the Wikipedia. I went first and tossed out the bombshell that I’m using Wikipedia as my textbook in Western Civ next semester. Needless to say,…
The Dustbin of (Wiki) History
I suppose it had to happen. The volunteer editors at Wikipedia have begun deleting entries from the massive online encyclopedia based upon their view of that entry’s value. On December 2, the Washington Post’s David Segal ran a story called “Look Me Up Under Missing Link,” in which he detailed the stories of several people…