handing out paints

Learning futures: technology challenges

2010 - Melbourne

Liam Wyatt

Handing out paints

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

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learning

Good way to encourage informal learning:Hand out paints

then ban painting?

my first edit

Like your friendly local altruistic drug dealer

Common Blockers 1• Copyright

We do the work so you don’t have to.No advertising, no royalties, no permissions, by volunteers worldwide for the love of learning. CAL can get knotted.

GRATIS LIBRE

Common Blockers II

• Ambivalence & Distain

“We don’t like it because it’s on the web.Oh, we didn’t mean that. Obviously there’s things on

the web that are good. We don’t like it because it’s not peer reviewed.

Oh, we didn’t mean that, it’s obviously peer reviewed, just not by peers we like.”

Formal learning with Wikipedia is also possible

• Have a class read and review an article

• Gather references for the text of an existing article

• Debate the discussion archive of a contentious article

• Groups improve an article over a term and report back

• Compare articles across languages/time/publication

But make sure to publish your experiences!

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:School_and_university_projects

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Teach kids toPractice safe Wikipedia

Thank you.

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