WikiIndaba conference 2018/Program/Teaching citizenship values and employability skills through Wikipedia (Case study)
 ID: Citizenship
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Teaching citizenship values and employability skills through Wikipedia (Case study) | ||
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| Speakers: Samuel Guebo (Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast) | Time block: friday-afternoon | Start: 13:58 | |
| Location: Great room | Duration: 7 min. | ||
| Description :
Over the latest 12 months, an experiment with three groups of higher education students in Côte d’Ivoire showed some fruitful results among a young audience. “Wikipedia classes”, a twelve-week learning program teaching students how to use Wikipedia efficiently, was launched in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Because editing Wikipedia—the encyclopedia accessed by more than 20 million online users hourly —has its own requirements such as courtesy, verifiability and notability, learners have acquired a wide array of abilities ranging from intangible citizenship values to practical modern skills. |
Themes: Education | ||
| Tags: Citizenship education, Wikipedia education | |||
| Notes: #WikiIndaba18_Citizenship | |||