Wikipedia and Education in the Time of the “Crisis of Information” Symposium

In the age of the infodemic and growing distrust towards the institutions of liberal democracy there can be little doubt that information is in crisis. The Wikipedia and Education in the Time of the “Crisis of Information” Symposium brings together academics who use Wikipedia as part of their teaching practice or analyse wiki data, and key actors bridging the academia-Wikipedia divide. Participants will share their experiences, address Wikipedia’s potential to address the “crisis of information”, and critically reflect on what role educational institutions can play in this respect.

The symposium will begin with the launch of the book Six Fact-Checking Lessons for Kids, which compiles educational resources developed as part of the Co-Developing a New Approach to Media Literacy in the Attention Economy research project. This project is part of the Affiliated Schools Research program, in which researchers from the University of Canberra collaborate with ACT school teachers. This project was supported by funding from an ACT Education Directorate-UC Affiliated Schools Research grant; by a University of Canberra DVCRI seed industry grant; and by a US Embassy (Australia) Public Affairs grant.

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Convenor

• Mathieu O’Neil, NMRC, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra

Keynotes

• LiAnna Davis, Deputy Director, Wiki Education
• Thomas Shafee, Swinburne University - Editor, WikiJournal of Science  

Participants

• Rachel Cunneen, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra
• Toby Hudson, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
• Amanda Lawrence, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), RMIT University
• Pru Mitchell, Wikimedia Australia
• James Neill, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra

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Schedule

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