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My daughter's teacher told her class that Wikipedia is unreliable because it's just made up by volunteers. So I asked her where they should find information and
by scandox 1y ago
My daughter's teacher told her class that Wikipedia is unreliable because it's just made up by volunteers. So I asked her where they should find information and she said other sites on the internet that can't just be edited by anyone.
Blew my mind.
- jowea 1y agoDid the teacher teach how to recognize a reliable other site?
- jl6 1y agoI can’t count how many times I’ve heard “Wikipedia is unreliable because it can be edited by anyone”. I tend to think that Wikipedia converges on reliable because it can be edited by anyone.
- jajko 1y agoSimple phrases heard elsewhere which make the person feel for 5s like a really smart experienced one in given topic, while being the opposite. A very common trait in large part of population, any population, which usually comes in pair with lack of critical thinking inward & outward. At the end though, most of us are guilty of such behavior from time to time.
- Nition 1y agoI have sometimes thought about firing up my old Encarta 98 CD. A bit outdated now though.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoI think you might be surprised, a lot of information on there is pretty timeless. Before Encarta and the internet, people would buy series of encyclopedias - but they wouldn't buy new ones every year. I'm seeing an ISO for Encarta on the Internet Archive, but I was hoping for a runnable version.
- InMice 1y agoDont use iso. Pick up an original CD for cheap on ebay. It's not the same without disc spinning
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- BenjiWiebe 1y agoAn iso can easily be burned to a CD, too.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoThis is the argument used for almost 25 years (...yes), did the teacher never get updated? I'd love to see your daughter submit something extremely wrong with citations from nonsense on the internet.
- thefz 1y agoHad a colleague make the same point on open source, "don't trust code everyone can modify". He was a bottom tier programmer at best.
- SoftTalker 1y agoThe thing about Wikipedia is that every claim is sourced. And those that aren't are usually noted with a "Citation Needed" disclaimer. So even if Wikipeda isn't permitted as a direct source for students, it's a great place to find other sources for claims and facts about almost any topic. That's how I taught my kids to use it in school. It's a ready-made bibliography on almost anything.