When to use Wikipedia in the classroom?

Instead of fighting against the use of Wikipedia in an undergraduate education, instructors should embrace the online open-source encyclopedia, a British Columbia college professor said Saturday at Congress 2011.

In her presentation titled Learning (and Making Mistakes) in Public: the Pedagogy of Using Wikipedia in the Classroom, Brenna Clarke Gray, who completed a PhD from the University of New Brunswick last year and now teaches at Douglas College, said students will almost certainly draw on Wikipedia and other online resources during their first year of study, despite it being frowned upon by many in the academic community.

While it's commonly known that online encyclopedias shouldn't be used as reference material for university and college papers, she suggests that having students build Wikipedia pages is beneficial to the learning experience, not detrimental.

She's not arguing that students should use the online encyclopedia for research, but rather the opposite: to build well-researched pages that will get passed as feature articles by Wikipedia editors.

"I want all of us to think about the spaces students use all the time anyway," said Clarke Gray, who previously taught English at UNB. "Can we meet our students where they are and subvert those things we think of as distractions in the class, and can we turn that around and find a way to make it worthwhile?"

In a trial run with her students in an English literature class, she had them build pages for Renaissance women dramatists.

The exercise forced the students to step out of their comfort zones by publicly submitting their work to Wikipedia editors.

Her students were guided by standard academic principles and were required to do substantial research, to cite properly and make sure their work was free of spelling and grammar errors.

Otherwise, she said, the faceless and sometimes nasty Wikipedia editors would reject the page her students tried to upload.

She said people would be surprised at the rigorous editing that goes into an article in order for it to achieve feature status.

"It forces (students) to be able to defend their research," said Clarke Gray, who uses Facebook and Twitter as ways to better communicate with her students. "Students entries were deleted ... if it was full of spelling mistakes or if some didn't cite sources."

She said the biggest downfall to Wikipedia in a university setting is that students will often cite and use Wikipedia for research assignments.

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