Teaching with Wikipedia

In this presentation, BU College of Arts & Sciences Lecturer Malavika Shetty describes how Wikipedia can be successfully incorporated into the classroom, especially in a remote-learning environment. Malavika discusses how Wikipedia can be effectively used not only as a pedagogical tool to teach research and writing skills and information literacy, but also as a way to empower students to contribute information to a website that is visited by millions of people every day.

Interested in exploring other teaching and technology strategies?

For pedagogical guidance and consultation, email ctl@bu.edu. For technology support and consultation, email askedtech@bu.edu.

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Malavika Shetty

mlshetty@bu.edu

Malavika comes to BU after several years of teaching linguistics and writing at the University of Texas at Austin and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her background and training is in linguistic anthropology with a research focus on the analysis of discourse in everyday…Read More

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Malavika Shetty

mlshetty@bu.edu

Malavika comes to BU after several years of teaching linguistics and writing at the University of Texas at Austin and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her background and training is in linguistic anthropology with a research focus on the analysis of discourse in everyday conversations. She is also a children’s book author and is currently working on her next children’s book.