As a Social Studies teacher reading this chapter I of course have to start off by attacking Wikipedia as a valuable source for information. Despite what Steve Jobs says, there is no academic accountability regarding information on Wikipedia. Using Wikipedia as a source is not real research. This does not require you, as a researcher, to utilize primary sources. Wikipedia serves primarily as a text book that can be written by people with little to no knowledge on the subject.
I will have to say that I can envision Wikis being useful in a Social Studies classroom. I have wanted to have student write a research paper collaboratively as a class. This paper can have multiple parts so that each student has a role. A wiki would be a good format to complete that task as all students can participate.
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