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Name_Christian L’Heureux

Wikipedia Project – Step 2

ED690- Methods of Inquiry Accelerated Hybrid Course

Summer 2018

This week, your task is to pinpoint your project topic and begin to evaluate the existing content on the topic or related to the topic. This does not need to be long. This assignment is intended to guide you through your studying of what is there and how you want to add.

(1)       Very clearly tell me the topic you have chosen below. It is best if you have narrowed it down to a short phrase at most. This should reflect the subject heading and/or subheadings you will write on within Wikipedia.

I would like to expand the list of national programs helpful for at-risk youth on Wikipedia.

(2)       Regarding your chosen topic, what is your impression of the content currently available on Wikipedia? Why do you feel that you need to contribute this content? Are you creating a new page, fixing a pre-existing page, or adding to a pre-existing page, or something else?

I searched at-risk youth and found a page that detailed background information. There is section that mentions national programs helpful for at-risk youth. This list only has four organizations on it. I believe there are more organizations that could be added here.

(3)       Describe the current state of the content on Wikipedia. Link me to what is there so I can see as well. If there is nothing available, what keywords and phrases have you tried? Even if there is nothing, give me a sense of what a person might be able to learn about something close to what is available. This will give you a sense of how hard people have to try to find information about that topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-risk_students

The term at-risk youth is something that people who work in schools hear all of the time. However, not everyone who works in a school or elsewhere will be searching through peer-reviewed articles to find out more information about the challenges these youth face and how better to work with and help them. This page provides an accessible place for people who work in schools or community organizations to get a better sense on the topic. Having said that, I believe certain aspects of this page could be expanded.

(4)       What needs to be done to create change for this topic? If you are creating something brand new, what sections do you envision it having? Please keep this reasonable because of our short and accelerated time frame. And remember that you won’t know and be able to share EVERYTHING in this short time, but a good solid start is still important.

The big change that I would like to make for the project given the limited amount of time is to add more organizations to the list of national organizations. I believe that this portion of topic is very important because it makes all people who visit the page more aware of the resources that are out there. An organization that I have seen have a huge impact on at-risk youth is Job Corps. The difficult aspect of adding organizations will be determining what is the appropriate criteria to do so. In general, I believe that this page has the potential to be significantly expanded though. They briefly touch on school and how this can contribute to a student being labeled as at-risk, but they don’t discuss the educational aspect further. There is a lot of room for growth in this aspect of the topic.

* Next week we will start collecting articles to read and include in the Wikipedia page. However, if your topic is too broad at this point it would be helpful to start searching the databases.