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Training Session:  “Teaching Astronomy with Wikipedia”

Purpose: To show how Wikipedia can be used as a resource when teaching astronomy in the classroom

Audience: IAU National Astronomy Education Coordinators (who then teach 6 yrs to 18 years olds)

Delivery Method: 1 hr Zoom session, repeated at two different times of the day to suit a global audience.

When: Monday June 10th 2024  13:00 and 19:00 UTC

Jointly delivered by: Nick Moyes / Sara Thomas (WMUK)

PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF c.1hr PRESENTATION

25 minutes by Nick Moyes

25 minutes by Sara Thomas

10 minutes for Questions


 * 1) INTRODUCTION
 * 2) * rather than focus on editing (as in our first session), we'll focus more on how you can find and use existing Wikipedia resources in your classroom, and suggest ways you might want to use astronomy articles in the classroom.
 * 3) * We'll talk first about working with older age groups, then look at ideas for younger children's activities
 * 4) * Then Sara T will share some Examples and Case Studies of teaching with Wikipedia SB: This sounds great!


 * 1) QUICK GAME: RACE TO THE MOON!  Simple and fun game to follow links from within a start article to a destination article as quickly as possible. Ice breaker, offering other outcomes around digital literacy and how information is structured.
 * 2) LOOKING AT USING WIKIPEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM
 * 3) * What Wikipedia is / is not
 * 4) * An encyclopaedia, not a textbook or a taught course. (But see WikiBooks)
 * 5) * But our encyclopaedia let's you link to and easily find so many related topics and articles. It's value is in the discoverability element, not just the resource of individual articles when you want to look up something.
 * 6) ARTICLE PAGE LAYOUT
 * 7) * Quick overview of key page features
 * 8) * Quick refresher on how to edit a page SB: I think both of these would be very useful.
 * 9) * Improving articles - when creating content (rather than simply consuming it) there's an improvement of Information Literacy. Understanding of how knowledge gets into place makes us think more about whether this is reliable source, or isn't to be trusted.
 * 10) FINDING AND USING ARTICLES
 * 11) * Search box - finding specific words or phrases
 * 12) FINDING ARTICLES BY CATEGORIES
 * 13) * Page bottom links / category subdivisions
 * 14) * Special:CategoryTree
 * 15) * PetScan - a tool to find articles falling into particular categories. Great for finding pages with shared characteristics (Featured Articles/Stubs/Needs referencing/ needs copy editing etc)
 * 16) ARTICLE QUALITY ASSESSMENT
 * 17) * Find it on Article's Talk Page - useful to see what others think of the current content. It's a Stub/Start class page: Can it be improved? Is it an important article?
 * 18) * Using Assessment Table in WikiProjects
 * 19) Evaluating Wikipedia Brochure
 * 20) IMAGES FOR CLASSROOM PROJECTS
 * 21) MAKING PDFs
 * 22) TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES (FOR OLDER STUDENTS)
 * 23) * So many ways teaching is delivered in different contexts, in different classrooms and in different countries -- these are some of the tips and tricks you could use in your session development:
 * 24) * Projects
 * 25) * Reading and Assessment
 * 26) * Projects to Improve Articles
 * 27) * Looking for and understanding RELIABLE SOURCES
 * 28) * Translating - translating manually can be a a way of learning languages
 * 29) * Antibiotics Under Our Feet SB: I am not sure what this is about
 * 30) * Citations - Information literacy
 * 31) TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN
 * 32) * Games  - Info Literacy
 * 33) * Native language version – native tongue
 * 34) * Simple Wikipedia
 * 35) GAMES AND CHALLENGES
 * 36) * https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ SB: I didn’t know about this website, it's pretty cool!
 * 37) SAMPLE CASE STUDIES - Sara Thomas
 * 38) * models and examples we can use for working with younger people.
 * 39) ** Simple English Wikipedia for younger people, eg: Antibiotics Under Our Feet, Astronomy
 * 40) ** Reproductive biology @ University of Edinburgh - creating an article in groups, text could be added by individuals or by teacher
 * 41) ** Menter Mon project in Wales - young people running their own events in their own language SB: I think people will be interested in this
 * 42) ** Work experience / preparing for Further and Higher Education.
 * 43) * Examples of outcomes we can get from projects and activities using Wikipedia in the classroom
 * 44) ** Information literacy
 * 45) ** Digital and media literacy
 * 46) ** Source analysis
 * 47) ** Working collaboratively
 * 48) ** Introduction to research skills
 * 49) ** Copyright, images
 * 50) *Approach with caution
 * 51) **Wikipedia is not censored
 * 52) **Wikipedia is public
 * 53) QUESTION TIME

PRE-QUESTIONNAIRE

A week or so before the session we could send out a pre-questionnaire to participants asking  2 questions (max)


 * Do you have any burning questions you want answered in this session?
 * Have you had any good or bad experiences you'd like to share about using Wikipedia with students?
 * What is your username of the Wikipedia account you will by now have created?

ROUGH NOTES (all the content that follows below!):

WikiLearn - is a very new learning resource for creating and posting courses. Currently under test. SB: This sounds very interesting.

Wikipedia in the Classroom

RESOURCES

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School SB: nice!

GAMES: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/

WikiLearn - is a very new learning resource for creating and posting courses. Currently under test.

Reading in the Classroom ?

Race to the Moon: Page ideas: (Gravity -> Moon)  (Solar System-> Moon landing 18 paths/ 2 clicks) (Japan -> Moon landing 7 paths / 2 clicks) / Saturns Rings to Earthshows how important interlinking is, and teaches digital skills. Try to do this in just 2 links. _ different models for how this works - can make it more or less complex.

NM's Concerns during this planning stage

SB: I think we could get some input from the questionnaire for this, and of course I/we will be happy to go through slides and give feedback.
 * I don't know enough about about the teaching needs and approaches of Primary School Educators
 * I'd like to hear from Astronomy Educators what they want to see addressed
 * Wikipedia Primary School seems userful, but is vastly out of date, or redundant (eg Wikipedia Zero)
 * I feel I'd like to draft a presentation structure and get feedback from Samantha/other OAE staff before modifying and offering it more widely.
 * WikiEdu and WikiLearn both seem to be based on small sets of structured courses, rather than showing how to facilitate using WMF resources.

KEY IDEAS

I can’t teach you how to teach with Wikipedia – that is really up to your imagination and skills as an educator. But I can teach you to find Wikipedia content that you can use in class, using your skills as an educator to build on.

ST will talk to models and examples that we can use for working with younger people.

A couple fo case studies/examples we've done for different age groups. Show a few of the outcomes we can get

English Wikipedia -> multiple languages

Simple Wikipedia -> multiple languages (simpler!) – good for learning languages

Quiz – create challenge for students to find out information from Wikipedia WikiRace? SB: This sounds like a good idea to engage the participants.

Get every participant to create a Wikipedia account and to submit their username in order to attend. SB: We can ask for this in the registration.

Survey potential attendees to find out what their needs and questions are in advance.


 * What would they like to see addressed in any training session we deliver?
 * What questions or worries would they want to be covered?
 * What experiences or misgivings do they already have?

We’ll look first at using Wikipedia in classes for secondary school children, from the age of 10 or 11. Then we’ll look at ideas more suited to Primary School age children (5-11)

Split it. ST Look at models and examples of how we've done in the past; what things are available, and what learnign outcomes are available.

NM Look at when you're doing different things on Wikipedia, this is where you can find things, this is the infrastructure, these are some handy tips and tricks

Start with a Fun Game -

ST 25 mins Start with a few different Case Studies for different age groups. Maybe End with Case Studies (more motivating) or the Games one can play. Prepping tool.

NM 25 mins

Questions

Document Links and Blogs etc.

The following questions will help us tailor the workshop to better suit your needs and experiences.
Are there any pressing questions on your mind that you're hoping to have addressed during this session?" What is the reliability and accuracy of Wikipedia content if I want to use it for teaching. Also, more info on attribution of images found on Wikipedia
 * How to show stars with the help of AI
 * Can teachers who have Zero astronomy experience guide a class through an astronomical instruction?
 * How to Teach Astronomy Using literature?
 * Is wikipedia reliable at 100%?
 * When to cite this source? Additionally commonly Wikipedia has no author or date to cite.
 * What is the best way to teach students how to use wikipedia and don't make literaly copy
 * What language will the workshop be held in? For me, I would like to see the possibility of interpreting in French for those who do not understand English.

Have you encountered any particularly memorable experiences, positive or negative, while incorporating Wikipedia into your teaching practices?

 * Before it was a little more striking for my students, currently working with other sources of information.
 * I once had to correct the official page for La Luna since it had periapsis and apoapasis switched, and not many people go through that effort. Negative in the sense that Wikipedia is not perfect, but Positive in the community experience of correcting it.
 * I also value it as a way for students to get a first encounter with complex concepts."
 * My students don't like read
 * AE Colombia
 * No, I have never incorporate wikipedia into our teaching practices
 * "I found very good references studying a topic
 * Some pages are not updated"
 * Students use wikipedia only for make copy and don't use it correctly
 * Saeed said: "I love using Wikipedia because I can click around on keywords to dive deeper into related topics. It's great for expanding my own knowledge and enriching my lessons.
 * Wikipedia is super handy for getting a quick outline of any topic. It helps me get the gist and plan my lessons faster.
 * The simple and short definitions on Wikipedia are a lifesaver. They make complex terms easy to understand, which is perfect for my students.
 * The way Wikipedia categorizes topics helps me find exactly what I need and map out my lessons clearly. It makes teaching a lot smoother."