“Authority” v. wikipedia (why teachers are picking the wrong fight)

Last week, one of my media course (ed PD) classmates talked about the ongoing struggle to help students make sense of the flood of information online. She cited a negative experience with wikipedia, which resulted in an energetic exchange about the merits (and challenges) with open online content.
It’s not about “authority” nor should it be
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Open minds, open tools, open education

Mozilla/Creative Commons Open Education Course – Seminar 1
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These are the slides from our first session of the Mozilla Open Education course. As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and [...]