In July 2006, Andy Carvin, host of the PBS blog learning.now,
examined the attitude of teachers toward using Wikipedia in the
classroom.  He asked: “Are educators hostile to Wikipedia?”. The
answers ranged from one high school teacher who told Andy “Most
colleagues had never seen Wikipedia, never intended to go there,
and some had already warned their students that they were not to
use Wikipedia for class projects” to another teacher who
objected “I use Wikipedia all the time as a quick way to get a
first pass on a subject I’m not familiar with, and I don’t see
any reason why students shouldn’t be taught to use it the same
way.” Most of the participants were arguing about whether their
students should use Wikipedia as a source of information, not
whether the students should contribute to it. Carvin had already
pointed out in 2005 that asking students to actively contribute
to Wikipedia might be a model worth exploring . Now, he stated:
“It may be just a matter of time before we see highly organized
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