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

8:45am	Coffee
9:00am	Welcome to country, Symposium aims, Launch of Six Fact-Checking Lessons for Kids Mathieu O’Neil, University of Canberra
9:15am	Morning keynote: Addressing Wikipedia’s content gaps LiAnna Davis, Wiki Education
10:00am	Getting structured data about anything and everything Toby Hudson, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
10:30am	Break
10:45am	Using Wikiversity for teaching and learning James Neill, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra
11:15am	Using Wikipedia in Class Pru Mitchell, Wikimedia Australia
11:45am	Wikipedia and information literacy in ACT schools Rachel Cunneen and Mathieu O’Neil, University of Canberra
12:15pm	Panel
12:30pm	Break
1:30pm	Afternoon keynote: Wikipedia as a key research outreach and teaching platform Thomas Shafee, Swinburne
2:15pm	Wikimedia and the evidence ecosystem Amanda Lawrence, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), RMIT University
2:45pm	Break
3:00pm	Panel discussion: Summing up and moving forward: What new strategies are needed to confront misinformation Mathieu O’Neil, 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
4:00pm	End

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