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Wikipedia and wikis as forums of information literacy instruction in schools

Wikipedia and wikis as forums of information literacy instruction in schools. Heidi Eriksson & Tuuli Kurkipää City of Tampere Upper secondary education. Eero Sormunen University of Tampere School of Information Sciences.

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Wikipedia and wikis as forums of information literacy instruction in schools

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  1. Wikipedia and wikis as forums of information literacy instruction in schools Heidi Eriksson & Tuuli Kurkipää City of Tampere Upper secondary education EeroSormunen University of Tampere School of Information Sciences The Road to InformationLiteracy, IFLA CongressSatelliteMeeting, Tampere, 8-10 August, 2012

  2. Outline • ”Tietohaltuun” project (Heidi) • Wikipedia assignments • Research findings (Eero) • Effect of the library visit on the use of sources • Professional reflections (Heidi) • Lessons learned

  3. ”Tietohaltuun” Project Improving the teaching of IL skills and the information services in upper secondary schools 2008-2012 Funded by the Finnish National Board of Education and the City of Tampere Project planner Heidi Eriksson

  4. ”Tieto haltuun” project • Aims to improve teachers’ and students’ IL skills in upper secondary schools • Aims to develop information services in schools • Initiated by schools • Schools requested an information specialist to update the teaching of IL • Innovation by teachers • Students learn good practices of information searching and use by writing for Wikipedia

  5. Wikipedia assignments:Role of the project librarian • A mediator between the teachers, researchers and the library • 30-minute session seeking information on the web • 2 additional sessions on the Finnish Literature course • helping students to seek and process the information and to write and publish articles in Wikipedia

  6. Wikipedia assignments:The role of the librarian • Collecting material for the students • 30-minute session on the library collection and available services + helping students with the library catalogue and helping them locate books from the shelves

  7. Research findings onstudents actual use of sources

  8. Research setting • Upper secondary school • Writing assignment: • a Wikipedia article as a group work • History class: 28 students, 7 groups • Literature class: 30 students, 10 groups • Included a special lesson in the local library • Data set analysed • 17 articles written • 189 sources used

  9. Do students useprinted sources? 3.0 12.9 6.1 4.3 3.7 0.3

  10. Do students write in their own words?

  11. Do students synthesize information?

  12. Do students plagiarize?

  13. Further analysis in progress • How students work in groups? • Do they really collaborate? • If not why? • Do group work experiences and learning experiences correlate? • How the design of the assignment and the teacher’s interventions affect on collaboration/learning experiences?

  14. Professionalreflections

  15. A successful IL course • Implemented in ordinary courses • Appropriate level of difficulty • Provides tools for an immediate need or assignment • Rooming-in (vierihoito) • the students work, the information specialist assists when needed

  16. A successful IL course:Requirements for the librarian • Presentation skills • Up-to-date knowledge • Knowledge of the average student’s IL skills • What do they need? What can they comprehend? • Collaboration with the teacher • aim of the course, details of the assignment • preparing students beforehand

  17. Before the IL course:Preparing the students • Study groups formed • Assignment explained • Topics selected • Basic information gathered

  18. Thank you! Further information Tietohaltuun project: http://tietohaltuun.wordpress.com/ [in Finnish] Know-Id research project: https://www12.uta.fi/blogs/know-id/

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