Editorializing Editorials

Today, thanks to twitter, I came across two editorials from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that are extremely pertinent to education.
Students lost in digital wasteland
and
If it’s not on the test, don’t expect me to know it
Both of these articles deal with the expectations of students vs. instructors vs.  system/standardized tests.
In the first editorial Eric Fox, an English [...]

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Can wikis be respected in higher education?

Ok, ok, maybe not Wikipedia since most faculty seem to turn away from Wikipedia like vampires turn away from the sun…

In this article, I want to discuss why faculty don’t like Wikipedia, if wikis have any value in higher education and if student created wikis have value.

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