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Wikipedia: it's unreliable, your students should never use it for research, 'anyone can change it,' right?
Guess what? 1/7
Guess what? 1/7
Professional fact checkers, at the nation's leading outlets, often turn to the very site many educators tell kids they should avoid (like the plague). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 2/7
Fact checkers, however, use Wikipedia skillfully, as a launch pad for 'lateral reading' gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/06/… & aft.org/ae/fall2017/mc… . 3/7
They know when and how to "harvest" Wikipedia's references. (Not to mention, how to recognize and distinguish among different kinds of sources). 4/7
They know how to tell if a page is "locked" and why that often makes a page more reliable than an unlocked ("unprotected") one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia… . 5/7
Watch the incomparable @johngreen explain how Wikipedia & Lateral Reading go together in this video developed with the help of @SHEG_Stanford & @mediawise with the @Poynter Institute. 6/7
And here's John's earlier one on "lateral reading" 7/7
