Follow up to journal club: 27/03/2018 — Wikipedia — promoting information literacy and highlighting our information privilege

We had a very productive journal club last week — discussing information privilege and the use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool among other things. If you couldn’t make it I would advise having a look at the original post we used to preview this month’s session and the associated comments.

We decided on the following as potential ways to follow up on our discussions:

Information privilege, paywalls, Open Access and educating students on these issues
We decided that in theory these would be good issues to bring into the classroom, and that we could potentially generate some interesting discussions with students by highlighting these issues. However we thought it might also be wise to check this out with other members of the Library first. John volunteered to do this.

Wikipedia — editing, writing and critical thinking
The group all agreed that a Wikipedia project similar to work done by Char Booth and others would be a great way to teach a number of important concepts — with blogging another possible tool that we could use to create an engaging series of workshops for students (on either the embedded or open programmes). We all agreed to keep this in mind in future discussions with academics — with a view to piloting something in the next academic year.

General discussions
We also identified a need to begin sharing our thoughts when reading relevant pedagogical literature. We suggested that it would be good practice to start posting reviews of articles, individual chapters or even whole books up on this Medium site.