Hi everyone,
at Wikimedia Argentina we are working with a potential new partner, to work
in education. The institution gives school support to about 750 kids from 6
to 12 years old. However, they have huge needs of primary sources for
consultation, when working on different school tasks and homework.
One idea that we considered at Wikimedia Argentina was to provide
WikiReaders: students could access them when at school support, and they
could read Wikipedia in Spanish for school work, if they need to consult
any topic.
I wanted to know if anyone working on education programs has ever crafted a
program that included the readers, and what was their experience. Can we
install Wikipedia in Spanish? Is it useful for primary school research
tasks? We can only buy it through
Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5…W/>,
or is there another channel to purchase these devices? Since it works
offline, is it possible to update it every other time?
The only information I found was in the device
homepage<http://thewikireader.com/>m/>,
but I would be glad to read about a program that uses WikiReader somewhere
else.
Thanks in advance!
Warm regards,
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*María Cruz*
Encargada de Comunicación
A.C. Wikimedia Argentina