WikiInfoLit Performance Objectives

The learner will choose to teach critical thinking and information literacy skills using a class wiki and Wikipedia rather than not using it at all or using it merely as a negative example.

The learner will generate lesson plans to teach critical thinking and information literacy skills using a class wiki and Wikipedia.

The learner will generate a strategy of evaluating the authority of Wikipedia articles and other information sources by presenting a written or media assessment of their expertise, experience, and reputation of their creators.

The learner will generate a strategy of evaluating the neutrality of Wikipedia articles and other information sources by presenting a written or media summary of the different points of view presented, which also assesses how much weight each point of view is given, and questions whether other points of view have been excluded.

The learner will generate a strategy of evaluating the objectivity of Wikipedia articles and other information sources by presenting a written or media examination of them for premises that are unfounded, logical fallacies, conflict of interest, agenda, selection bias, confirmation bias, positive results bias.

The learner will state the reasons for citing sources, by writing or creating a media presentation.

The learner will classify the concept of genealogy or provenance of knowledge by explaining it in writing or a media presentation.

The learner will state the advantages and disadvantages of the peer review system, by writing or creating a media presentation.

The learner will classify the concept of scholarly communication or the conversation among scholars that takes place in journal articles and monographs, and also compare it to the less formal generation and negotiation of knowledge that takes place inside and outside of the scholarly community (eg in Wikipedia), by writing or creating a media presentation.

The learner will adopt ADDIE instructional design as a strategy for creating lesson plans.

The learner will state their new understanding of concepts of constructivism and problem based learning.

The learner will execute the task of creating a MediaWiki and editing one or more pages using internal and external links, bold and italic text, bullets, headers, embedded files, references, font sizes, tables, and special characters.

The learner will choose to use constructivist and problem based learning strategies in their instruction.