Hi Vojtech,
thanks for sharing the experience of the campaign in the Czech Republic.
What is not clear to me still is what happened during the campaign? I'm
trying to understand what action took place; from my first read, I take it
it was mostly promotional action and communications, but there was no work
one on one with teachers, right?
Looking forward to your response,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\
Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Jami Mathewson <jami(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
Vojta,
Thanks for sharing. Congrats on the success you're having so far! Looking
forward to seeing where it goes from here!
Jami
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Vojtěch Dostál <
vojtech.dostal(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote:
Hi,
Vahid asked me to sum up the organization of the #EduWiki campaign in the
Czech Republic. First, we decided that it is our long-term goal to attract
primary and secondary school pupils to Wikipedia. This is because most
people started editing Wikipedia at early age. We don't think that teaching
edit Wikipedia is really efficient, because most are unable to produce a
good quality article without us helping a lot. Rather, we'd like them to
learn *about *Wikipedia and how it is written. Teachers can use
Wikipedia as a cool example on which they can improve their pupils' *digital
literacy*. Because teaching digital literacy is a priority of the Czech
government, this proved as an achievable goal in the long-term. We called
this campaign Teach (with) Wiki
<https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:U%C4%8D_(s)_Wiki>.
We prepared drafts of *lesson plans*, a bit different from the ones
prepared by WMF but they do take some inspiration from them. This is not
because the plans written by WMF are trash, but rather because we wanted to
write something exceptional that will lay foundations to something bigger
(read on).
But we knew we needed *allies*. We contacted our friends in EDUin (an
NGO promoting innovation in education) who have experience with contacting
media and educational institutions and together prepared a press release
and organized a press conference. This helped us to spread the idea which
really attracted attention (about 10 articles in press TV and radio). We
were invited by the Ministry of Education to talk about our idea and they
will help us improve it and spread the word. We are still polishing the
three 45-minute lesson plans but once they are all out, they will be public
and hopefully also translated into English at some point. Also we hope to
attract teachers to try using them in their lessons as early as this year.
Next year, we want to register "Wikipedia and teaching digital literacy"
in the formal governmental *system of postgradual teachers education* so
that we can organize accredited course and gain (governmental or EU)
financial support for them. This is a way to get Wikipedia to many teachers
in primary and secondary school and thus to their pupils. Some of these
pupils may be so intrigued by Wikipedia that they start editing it, who
knows? We definitely want to devise methods to find this out
retrospectively.
I hope you find this interesting,
cheers
Vojtěch Dostál
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