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Wiki letdown

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12 Oct 2006

My son came home from school yesterday with a tale of woe. His teacher rejected his use of the Wikipedia article in his report. His bibliography has to contain an encyclopedia, and his teacher didn’t approve of a web site as an encyclopedia.

For one thing, she requires that the bibliography include the date that the article was updated. My son told her it was updated yesterday—by him. She didn’t understand and couldn’t comprehend that he had updated an encyclopedia.

In contrast, Ross Mayfield’s 5th grader is working on a blog in class.

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