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- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:12:09 -0400 (EDT)
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INFORMATION LITERACY :
REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS :
EDUCATION: K-12: ISSUES :
CENSORSHIP:
Re: Wikipedia (was Re: Let Teachers Override the Filters) :
Censoring the Wikipedia in K-12 Schools and
Alternatives for K-12 Student Research Skills Training
The post below is my response to a discussion within a discussion
regarding middle school and high school censorship of the Wikipedia, (did
you know that Larry Sanger reported the Wikimedia Foundation to the FBI
for distributing child pornography?)
<http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=
EDTECH&month=1004&week=a&msg=oh60TKAnthvEwBjcWNxxSg&user=&pw=>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ydk3jyu>
Quoting
"I believe Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/), owned and
hosted by the California-based Wikimedia Foundation, may be knowingly
distributing child pornography. The clearest instances I found (I did not
want to look for long) are linked from [deleting link; it's a category
about pedophilia] and [link deleted; it's a category about something
called lolicon]. I don't know if there is any more, but I wouldn't be
surprised if there is--the content on the various Wikimedia projects,
including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and various others, are truly
vast. "
Before running out and having a public electronic book burning bonfire to
protect us from the evils of the Wikipedia, one may want to have a look at
this rebuttal.
From: Larry Phillips <larrry.phillips@xxxxxxxxx>
List Editor: EDTECH Editor-Jones <edadmin6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Editor's Subject: Re: Wikipedia (was Re: Let teachers override the
filters)
Author's Subject: Re: Wikipedia (was Re: Let teachers override the
filters)
Date Written: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:46:14 -0400
Date Posted: Fri, 08 Apr 2010 19:46:14 -0400
<http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=
EDTECH&month=1004&week=b&msg=lDm2NA1XDZhwbt4QAlXfig&user=&pw=>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y9s62er>
Quoting:
"I searched Wikipedia for "sex positions", "nudity", "pedophilia", "sexual
intercourse" and didn't find anything that would be considered porn in
this day and age. There were images that while instructional wouldn't be
recommended for use in public schools. More because of society's desire
that students learn by doing instead of direct instruction. I would
strongly suggest that followers of this debate actually look at the
content that is being portrayed as pornographic or objectionable (there
were no images on the pedophilia page and it was the most complete and
balanced article available for free on the web) before describing
Wikipedia as a purveyor of porn. "
One can view the rest of the Wikipedia and related discussions on the
publically archived EDTECH discussion group by using these web links and
selecting topically relevant posts.
<http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=
lx&list=EDTECH&user=&pw=&month=1004>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yb4zbes>
<http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=
lx&list=EDTECH&user=&pw=&month=1003>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ybf4zu8>
Look for discussions with these headings:
internet safety resources
Let teachers override the filters
Wikipedia (was Re: Let teachers override the filters)
This is my contribution to that discussion:
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 06:47:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: EDTECH - Educational Technology <EDTECH@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Wikipedia (was Re: Let teachers override the filters)
I am alarmed and shocked that educators censor the Wikipedia. There is growing
literature that indicates that the Wikipedia is a turn to resource for a large
and growing number of college students at some point in most of their research
projects. It is a tremendous resource for beginning ones understanding of a
topic and its coverage of a wide range of topics is beyond very extensive.
Control of the content in this encyclopedia is much stronger than in the days
when one could find obituaries of living people. Indeed there is a significant
collection of sources that point to errors and mistakes in the Britannica
Encyclopedia.
Certainly the Wikipedia is often cited as a source of information in
publications and articles.
"Wikipedia -- an online knowledge source used by most college students,
according to a recent study -- defines the digital divide as "the gap between
people with effective access to digital and information technology and those
with very limited or no access at all."
Digital Divide Changing but Not for Students Torn by It
Released: 4/7/2010 10:00 PM EDT
Source: University of Oregon
<http://www.newswise.com/articles/
digital-divide-changing-but-not-for-students-torn-by-it>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yek6zl7>
The Wikipedia is certainly more searched in Google than the Britannica as a
search term in any language or country.
<http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2Cbritannica>
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus cites the heavy use of
Wikipedia by college students.
March 16, 2010, 12:25 PM ET
Students Use Wikipedia Early and Often
By Mary Helen Miller
The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus
<http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Use-Wikipedia-Early/21850/>
"More than half of college students frequently or always consult Wikipedia for
course-related research, according to a report published in First Monday, an
online, peer-reviewed journal. Only 22 percent of respondents to the survey
said they rarely or never use Wikipedia. The study is based on responses from
2,318 students and qualitative data from 86 who participated in focus groups.
The most common reason that students reported using Wikipedia was to obtain
background information or a summary about a topic and to get started with
research."
It is the lead encylopedia in a Net-Gold post that cites general and subject
specific encyclopedias that was posted several years ago.
(Top Link in this Group)
General Internet and Print Resources: Encyclopedias
REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS :
REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: SUBJECT:
Selected general encyclopedias available on the
internet and and selected online subject specific
encyclopedias as well as selected subject and topic
specific encyclopedia publications available in print.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/19754
also
http://tinyurl.com/6jngry
also
http://tinyurl.com/5dkohd
also
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22net-gold%22+and+
%22temple.edu%22+and+(encyclopedia+OR+encyclopedias%22)
&hl=en&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ycan3zk>
Source of these Links:
Russell Conwell Educational Services
Center Learning Research and Study Resources
Links to General Internet Resource Guides
<http://guides.temple.edu/aecontent.php?pid=22756>
Indeed the Wikipedia is heavily discussed, cited and mentioned in academic,
scholarly and research articles as well as in many books.
Articles
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=
en&q=wikipedia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y9ysyql>
Books
<http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&q= wikipedia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=sp>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ye2fg7x>
The Wikipedia has been an extensive source of information for journalists as
well as a topic of discussion itself in news stories.
In the present month:
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wikipedia&um=
1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&sa=N&tab=pn>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ybvjgkl>
as well as over time:
Results 1 - 10 of about 170,000 for wikipedia
<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=
1&um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=wikipedia&cf=all>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ybmbvzp>
Hardly an hour goes by without its name coming up in the media:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia&hl=en&tbo=s&tbs=
nws:1,qdr:h&ei=1vu-S-jTGsaAlAfNoOz2Bg&sa=X&oi=tool&resnum=
3&ct=tlink&ved=0CCAQpwU>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yandega>
Use of as a resource and coverage of the Wikipedia has also been extensive on
Net-Gold:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22net-gold%22+
and+%22temple.edu%22+and+wikipedia&hl=en&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ycn2rd9>
Censorship of the Wikipedia in some middle schools and high schools is not
necessarily an indicator that high quality sources for research, bibliographic
databases, are part of what teachers in many of these schools are training
their students to use for quality research results.
My own experience with entering undergraduate students is that they have never
heard of the existence of databases despite the fact that these tools are
provided by many if not most state governments through public libraries and,
for those schools that sign up, K-12 libraries.
Here is the link for such content at the New York Public Library:
<http://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases>
Here is a sample of the resources provided from the beginning of the letter A
in the New York Public Library's listing of these resources:
A2A - Access to Archives
Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from
the 900s to the present day.
Accessible only at select Library locations
ABES: Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
Covers secondary literature in English Studies in four main subject areas:
Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Film Studies.
Accessible outside the Library with your NYPL card
Academic Search Premier multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600
magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed
titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and
abstracts for 8,470 journals.
Accessible only at select Library locations
AccessUN
Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering
1998-present.
Accessible only at select Library locations
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
Provides online access to a fully searchable collection of high-quality books
in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Free Web resource - available anywhere
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
Provides links to websites of publishers throughout the world, searchable by
alphabetical, geographical, and topical lists.
Accessible only at select Library locations
Advertising Red Books Online
This directory includes information necessary for advertising research on
agencies and advertisers.
Accessible outside the Library with your NYPL card
African American Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African
Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.
Accessible only at select Library locations
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Searchable full-text of the major African-American newspapers published in the
United States during the 19th century.
Accessible outside the Library with your NYPL card
African-American History Online
Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies,
primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts.
Accessible only at select Library locations
African-American Poetry
African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Free Web resource - available anywhere
Agricola
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations
to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and
its cooperators.
<snip>
Here are links to more information regarding databases.
DATABASE OR DATABASES
http://tinyurl.com/mx7p97
DATABASE SEARCHING
http://tinyurl.com/m8chay
DATABASE SEARCHING TECHNIQUES
http://tinyurl.com/llvhyb
DATABASE SECURITY
http://tinyurl.com/lmwndn
DATABASE THESAURUSES
http://tinyurl.com/m95gsm
DATABASE TRAINING
http://tinyurl.com/nq8lxo
DATABASES FULLTEXT
http://tinyurl.com/lm4pux
Unfortunately, many freshman entering college have also not heard of
specialized search tools available to all free on the web from Google and other
sources such as Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Government, Google News
Archive, SCIRUS and Pogofrog to name some of these critically important
resources. Hence censorship in some K-12 communities of the Wikipedia may be
compounded in the propagation of information illiteracy amongst America's
adolescents by the failure to teach quality alternative research tools that our
tax dollars are paying for via community public access in our public libraries,
an access that library administrations are most willing to fight for.
UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW JERSEY :
LIBRARIES:
Libraries Across New Jersey Expected to Slash Services
Due to State Aid Cuts
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/32409>
UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW JERSEY :
LIBRARIES: PUBLIC LIBRARIES :
GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING:
Your Library is Under Attack
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/32414>
Here are some links to sources discussing or using internet search tools:
INTERNET RESEARCH
http://tinyurl.com/n8mokd
INTERNET SEARCH
http://tinyurl.com/lbacf9
INTERNET SEARCH COUNTRY SPECIFIC TOOLS
http://tinyurl.com/mhjj8p
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)
http://tinyurl.com/lfktts
INTERNET SEARCH GUIDES
http://tinyurl.com/mh4pax
INTERNET SEARCH LANGUAGE SPECIFIC TOOLS
http://tinyurl.com/lktkyj
INTERNET SEARCH MEDIA SPECIFIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES
http://tinyurl.com/njqfed
INTERNET SEARCH SUBJECT SPECIFIC TOOLS
http://tinyurl.com/l6rj23
INTERNET SEARCH TECHNOLOGY
http://tinyurl.com/mn62pw
INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS
http://tinyurl.com/melawb
Indeed the preoccupation in K-12 since the advent of No Child Left Behind of
teaching to the test and the failure in at least a substantial number of K-12
schools to teach research schools could be a major cause of student failure and
dropouts at the college level.
NCLB content on Net-Gold
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22net-gold%22+and+%22temple.edu%
22+and+(nclb+OR+%22no+child+left+behind%22)&hl=en&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yck59kk>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
<http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com>
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<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/>
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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>
THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
<http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79>
Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold
<http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o>
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Twitter: davidpdillard
Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
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<http://tinyurl.com/p63whl>
<http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw>
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HEALTH DIET FITNESS RECREATION SPORTS TOURISM
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http://healthrecsport.jiglu.com/
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