Improving Information Literacy Skills Through Learning to Use and Edit Wikipedia: a Chemistry Perspective

Improving Information Literacy Skills Through Learning to Use and Edit Wikipedia: a Chemistry Perspective - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Martin A. Walker and Ye Li.

Overview

Authors students rely on Wikipedia on their mobile devices or laptops, since it is an extremely rich and broad resource. This article overviews the Chemistry content on Wikipedia and how students can learn to use it effectively as an information resource, critically evaluating content, and learning key information literacy skills. Authors also discuss how students’ information literacy skills can be improved through a class project where students edit Wikipedia articles. Through such projects, students may begin to appreciate where and how chemical information is generated, gathered, developed, and shared in the real world.