Wiki

The dreaded word in most classrooms and on most works cited pages is usually the first stop for fast information. If I want to know new Disney pages or my roommate needs to know how to pick a lock we head straight to Wikipedia. Sometimes when starting to gather information for a paper that I’m clueless about I go to Wikipedia to get a rough idea about the subject I am about to research. I am terrified about approaching Wikipedia from the editor standpoint, because I feel that my knowledge is not worthy of creating or editing information that everyone can see and criticize. Once again, I am preventing myself from accessing the full benefits of the internet because I’m scared. However, using Wiki as a co-creation tool in a classroom excited me. If students learn how a Wikipedia page is created then they should intuitively be prone to the benefits and downfalls of a co-created site. It is interesting how one website can hold both beneficial and dreadful connections to education.