Friday, June 7, 2013

Week Two: Should Wikipedia be forbidden in Students’ Social Studies research?

I do not think that Wikipedia should be forbidden in social studies research.  Wikipedia, despite its weaknesses, does have a lot of valuable information when using it as a research tool.  If nothing else, students can use this site as a place to begin in their research.  I usually warn my students that they probably should not use this site as a source for a paper or research project; however, its information is very useful. 

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  1. I agree that Wikipedia does have lots of valuable information. Usually when using google to search a topic Wikipedia is one of the first sites to come up. If a student is doing a research I would highly encourage them to use a reputable website that can be sited.

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