Improving Information Literacy Skills through Learning To Use and Edit Wikipedia: A Chemistry Perspective

Our students rely on Wikipedia on their mobile devices or laptops, since it is an extremely rich and broad resource. This article overviews the Chemistry content on Wikipedia and how students can learn to use it effectively as an information resource, critically evaluating content, and learning key information literacy skills. We also discuss how students’ information literacy skills can be improved through a class project where students edit Wikipedia articles. Through such projects, students may begin to appreciate where and how chemical information is generated, gathered, developed, and shared in the real world.

我们的学生在移动设备或笔记本电脑上依赖维基百科，因为它是一种极其丰富和广泛的资源。本文概述了维基百科上的化学内容，以及学生如何学会有效地将其作为一种信息资源来使用，批判性地评估内容，并学习关键的信息素养技能。我们还讨论了如何通过一个让学生编辑维基百科文章的课堂项目来提高学生的信息素养技能。通过这样的项目，学生可能会开始了解化学信息在现实世界中是在何处以及如何产生、收集、发展和共享的。