WikiInfoLit Course Purpose

What will the student be like immediately after the instruction?

The student will choose to use Wikipedia as an information source if the references, Talk page, and content of a particular Wikipedia page warrant trusting it. (Attitude)
The student will demonstrate intellectual skills and adopt cognitive strategies for determining whether a particular Wikipedia page is trustworthy, based on a set of criteria or questions to ask. (Intellectual skills, cognitive strategies.)
The student will demonstrate those intellectual skills and adopt those cognitive strategies in evaluating different kinds of information sources, both physical and digital, text and other media. (Intellectual skills, cognitive strategies.)
The student will choose to use Wikipedia to teach those same intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, and attitudes to high school or college students. (Attitude)
The student will possess knowledge necessary to support an educated opinion regarding Wikipedia and the necessity of evaluating information sources when doing research. (identified concepts, classified concepts, stated verbal information.)