2009
DOI: 10.1598/jaal.53.1.7
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A Tale of Two Tasks: Editing in the Era of Digital Literacies

Abstract: This article argues that editing in the era of digital literacies is a complex, collaborative endeavor that requires a sophisticated awareness of audience and purpose and a knowledge of multiple conventions for conveying meaning and ensuring accuracy. It compares group editing of an article about the New York Yankees baseball team on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, to the decontextualized proofreading task required of seventh graders on a state‐level examination. It concludes that literacy instruct… Show more

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“…Students should be able to benefit from the opportunity to write for real audiences, establish credibility, and discuss the nature of truth, accuracy, and neutrality. Chandler-Olcott (2009) argued that teachers should encourage students to write in digital collaborative environments such as Wikipedia. studied how high school students adopted MediaWiki as a learning and writing platform.…”
Section: Student Contributionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Students should be able to benefit from the opportunity to write for real audiences, establish credibility, and discuss the nature of truth, accuracy, and neutrality. Chandler-Olcott (2009) argued that teachers should encourage students to write in digital collaborative environments such as Wikipedia. studied how high school students adopted MediaWiki as a learning and writing platform.…”
Section: Student Contributionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other articles related to student information literacy are described elsewhere in this review (Choolhun 2009;Gunnels & Sisson 2009;Chandler-Olcott 2009). …”
Section: Student Information Literacymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Znanstvenici su se bavili različitim aspektima njezina korištenja u akademskom okruženju i u jednom se trenutku činilo da je nemoguće pomiriti suprotstavljene tabore. Pojedini su autori primjerice isticali njezinu vrijednost u kontekstu informacijskog opismenjavanja studenata (Gunnels 2007, Jennings 2008, Harouni 2009, Rand 2010, Okoli et al 2014, Selwyn 2016) i demokratskog procesa stvaranja znanja (Wallace i Van Fleet 2005, Chandler-Olcott 2009), a drugi su pak kritizirali kvalitetu njezinih članaka (Denning et al 2005, Waters 2007) i sposobnost studenata da kritički vrednuju i koriste sadržaj dostupan na Wikipediji (Calkins i Kelley 2009, Shen, Cheung i Lee 2013. Recentnija su pak istraživanja informacijskog ponašanja u akademskom okruženju pokazala da studenti više nisu usmjereni isključivo na tradicionalne tiskane izvore i knjižnice, nego sve češće u značajnoj mjeri koriste raznolike online sadržaje, uključujući Wikipediju, (Junni 2007, Faletar Tanacković, Lacović i Stanarević 2012 te im je, pored kvalitete i pouzdanosti izvora, sve važnije da oni budu lako dostupni i jednostavni za korištenje (Biddix, Joo i Park 2011, Connaway, Dickey i Radford 2011, Taylor 2012.…”
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“…Whereas most of the articles we discuss here involve helping students to read Wikipedia critically, Chandler‐Olcott () argued that constructive writing is a crucial aspect of digital literacy, and so teachers should encourage students to write in digital collaborative environments such as Wikipedia.…”
Section: Findings From Scholarly Research On Wikipedia Readershipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two other articles related to student information literacy more directly discuss how librarians should leverage Wikipedia as a resource for students, and so we describe them in the section of this review of Wikipedia as a Source for Librarians (Chandler-Olcott, 2009;Choolhun, 2009;Gunnels & Sisson, 2009).…”
Section: Student Information Literacymentioning
confidence: 99%