{"id":1502,"date":"2020-06-12T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:12:08","slug":"talk-to-your-kids-about-wikipedia-before-their-teachers-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Talk to your kids about Wikipedia before their teachers do."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talking to kids, when I find they don\u2019t know something I ask \nthem to google it or to check out Wikipedia.  And they all say, \n\u201cWikipedia is unreliable, I would never read it!\u201d.  Somehow the rule in \nschools that Wikipedia is not an authoritative source to reference for a\n paper has turned in a strongly held belief the site should be avoided \nentirely.  Teachers, you done f*cked up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And really, the school rule not to cite Wikipedia exists because \nWikipedia makes assignments too easy\u2013it would be one citation for most \nkids if allowed, and the teachers want to students to dig deeper, find \ntwo or three other sources, maybe crack a book.  Which is a fine \neducational goal, but in implementation it has given kids the completely\n wrong idea.  Wikipedia is a great place to start for most questions, \nalmost always accurate.  Entries tend to be short, shorter than \nEncyclopedia Britannica, but it provides a good starting point\u2013enough \ninfo to remind you of an forgotten fact\u2013\u201cWhen was the War of 1812?\u201d, and\n enough to give you details to guide a google search for more \ninformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to kids, when I find they don\u2019t know something I ask them to google it or to check out Wikipedia. And they all say, \u201cWikipedia is unreliable, I would never read it!\u201d. Somehow the rule in schools that Wikipedia is not an authoritative source to reference for a paper has turned in a strongly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}