Chapter 4

Responses to Chapter 4

Richardson writes that, “everyone together is smarter than anyone alone” (Richardson 61). This gives using Wikipedia a new meaning. It allows teachers to use it to teach a profound lesson that is valuable to both teachers and students. Students can see how beneficial it is to work together with a common goal. This type of behavior has created the amazing informational bank that Wikipedia is.

Richardson suggests that, if you have a student who constructs an amazing research paper, you could allow your student to publish on Wikipedia. This would be great for teaching students how to defend and question their papers. People will likely edit the post, then students can question whether the edit was correct, or their original post was correct. It would spark critical thinking and analysis skills.