Annette Becomes a Teacher Librarian!

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/people-collective-group-knowledge-3285992/ Throughout LIBE 467, we were asked about the use of online crowd-sourced encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and the place they had within our SLLC’s. I concluded that Wikipedia is a great place for students to start their research, but that it is also a great place for students to practice their informational literacy skills specifically accuracy and bias. We then read a great article “Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)” by Paul Berinstein. It suggested Wikipedia is as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica and that maybe people should be judged “by their actions, not their titles” (Berinstein 7-8). This made me question the representation and bias of these sources. In addition, a comment my LIBE 467 professor made contributed to my curiosity: the inclusion or exclusion of information in an encyclopedia could also be considered bias (Oxley). My hypothesis was that Wikipedia’s contri...