I played God in the opposite direction. That way you teach the lesson without having to ban Wikipedia. (I should state that the purpose of this particular modul

I played God in the opposite direction. That way you teach the lesson without having to ban Wikipedia. (I should state that the purpose of this particular module is to illustrate the dangers of scientific misinformation. And this is only one of the exercises in that module. But all are illustrative in a way that students in the age of social media can readily relate to.) 1st Exercise serves as an intro to the subject 1 - Find articles on Wikipedia, or information on social media sources, with factually incorrect information in them. Science articles are a good source of these. Molecular weights are wrong. Physics formulas off. That sort of thing. 2 - Assign a short essay on a subject that these wikipedia pages claim to expound on. 3 - Kids will ask if they can use Wikipedia. Tell them yes, but emphasize that you wouldn't advise it as a person should be skeptical of anything they read on the internet. Let them know that lot of the information out there is false. 4 - Vast majority of the kids will ignore your advice and the same incorrect information will make an appearance in each of their essays. Grade them normally. So most will earn D or F. 5 - Since everyone did so poorly, agree to drop the D or F grades and just assign another short essay. This one on the use of internet information sources to disseminate misinformation. (In my case, scientific misinformation. But the same exercise works for whatever subject you are teaching.) Use the entire exercise to inform the discussion of scientific misinformation. (Or, again, misinformation in whatever subject you are teaching.) This discussion is the real launch of the module. Further exercises in the module go into the dangers of medical misinformation. Importance of factual information in decision making. etc etc. It's the most fun module because by the end, the students don't trust me. (In fact, they trust no one.) It has become a game, and they're all listening extremely carefully to every word I say expecting another gotcha. In a very real way, they've learned to be skeptical even of teachers. They've begun to trust only what they can verify. And you realize your work is done.