This Is Your Education On Wikipedia, Working Drafts Toward A Paper ??? Options

[Jon Awbrey]

I'm going to use this thread to collect previous posts on educational philosophy and educational practice that seem worth preserving, and perhaps even rewriting for wider distribution.

Jon Awbrey

[Jon Awbrey]

I could repeat all of the things that I have written about Wikipediot Culture over the past 5 years, and all of it would still be true. All that's changed is that the danger to the minds of students and to society at large is even greater today than it was 10 years ago.

Though many emphasize content issues, that is only part of the story. Far worse is the mis-education in the ways of inquiry and the warping of personal character to which even the most well-intentioned participants are eventually subjected.

Academic researchers and journalists on all sides have let us down. They do little more than recycle Wikipediot PR and blow pretty bubbles of wishful theory that are wholly divorced from hard knocks observation of what actually happens on Wikipedia Island on a day to day basis. It begins to look like it may be a decade or so before the real effects of Wikipedia Culture begin to make an impact on the dreamy bubble worlds of academics and media hacks. It won't be pretty — let's hope it won't be too late.

— 10 Jan 2011 • Chron