LINGUIST List 33.2280
Fri Jul 15 2022
FYI: Give your students the chance to improve linguistic content on Wikipedia this fall!
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 14-Jul-2022
From: Helaine Blumenthal <helaine
wikiedu.org>
Subject: Give your students the chance to improve linguistic content on Wikipedia this fall!
E-mail this message to a friend Digital literacy is no longer a nice-to-have for today's students. It's a critical skill as students engage with today's media landscape, and its the responsibility of educators to ensure that students are able to accurately and responsibly consume as well as produce information.
Over the past several years, we've worked with over 150 courses in the field of linguistics whose students have contributed over two million words to Wikipedia! These students have tackled everything from linguistic theory, to biographies of underrepresented linguists, to writing about endangered languages.
What you can do:
Consider running a Wikipedia assignment in one of your courses in a coming term to improve linguistic content on Wikipedia and allow your students to have real world impact. The idea is simple, but powerful: Students contribute to Wikipedia as a course assignment, and Wiki Education provides the support that you and your students need to make it all work.
Our support is fully funded, and there are no fees to run a Wikipedia assignment. To find out more about the program, visit
https://teach.wikiedu.org. We're currently accepting courses for the Fall 2022 term, and priority will be given to classes that sign up by July 29.
If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to reach out to me directly. I hope we have the chance to work with you in the coming academic year.
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Page Updated: 15-Jul-2022