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jl6 ◴[] No.45135750[source]
Wikipedia is fabulous. I wish educators would stop telling people that it’s not reliable, and start using it to teach media literacy - which, for wiki purposes, is essentially to read the talk page to see what viewpoints have been included and excluded and why.
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scandox ◴[] No.45135842[source]
My daughter's teacher told her class that Wikipedia is unreliable because it's just made up by volunteers. So I asked her where they should find information and she said other sites on the internet that can't just be edited by anyone.

Blew my mind.

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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[] No.45136281[source]
This is the argument used for almost 25 years (...yes), did the teacher never get updated?

I'd love to see your daughter submit something extremely wrong with citations from nonsense on the internet.