I was reading through some of the articles in my Google Reader, and one in particular struck my interest. It was on the Dangerously Irrelevant blog by Scott McLeod, entitled, Teaching Adminstrators About Wikipedia. There is apparently a Librarian in New Jersey who puts up a sign in the library saying, “Just Say No to Wikipedia” over the computers in the school library. . . . Wikipedia is blocked on all computers in the Warren Hills Regional School District.
This is amazing to me when you consider how accurate Wikipedia is compared to most of our textbooks. Scott goes on to give lots of reasons why the stance against Wikipedia is unwarranted..He also suggest introducing administrators to Wikipedia in order to change their mindset. I totally agree…..but the entire time I’m reading the article, I keep wondering will there ever come a day when part of my job is no longer to “convince” others of the value of technology. It seems so obvious to me—a major “duh!”….Did we have to convince teachers to use the blackboard? Why can’t people see it? I better stop now, before I really get started….:)
