Double Entry Journal #4

Quote: According to a recent study from the Pew Center for Internet & American Life, more than half of all teens have generated media content and roughly a third of teens online have shared content they produced with others.

Response: Reading this, I was surprised and amazed. When I first read it, I was pondering whoa that is a lot; then, after thinking about it, I was more in the mindset of oh, well that sounds about right. It is a daily thing for me. This paticipatory culture, as mentioned in the article as a new media literacy, gives us the ability to share what we know and what other people know with anyone and everyone. Wikipedia does this by posting their stuff on the internet where a lot of people have access to at almost all times. Wikipedia enables users to comment back on everything as well as input their own knowledge; doing so, they are promoting some of the new skills that have come about in the 21st century. These skills are feedback, expressing themselves, and using media. I believe that these are all good things, as well as wikipedia is, but when doing research projects I do not believe that wikipedia should be used. As discussed in class, I think that it should be used as a background get the feel of it sort of thing, but not as a cited source. This article agrees by saying that encyclopedias should not be cited in research essays.

Article: Wikipedia in Schools -- This article is by Wikipedia about Wikipedia being used in schools. I think it is kind of ironic in a way that whenever I googled Wikipedia in schools, the first article I found was from Wikipedia itself stating their opinion and facts on the debate.

Citation: Wikipedia. (2009 Aug 30). Wikipedia in Schools. Retrieved September 18, 2012 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_Schools