The First Paragraph Is As Good As It Gets: STEM Articles in Wikipedia and Opportunistic Learning

Overview of attention for article published in College Teaching, November 2021

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twitter: 10 X users

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Usually they are not inaccurate but often they are misleading and highlight things that confuse the reader. Misattributions and lack of citation is fairly common. Teachers and brilliant people are not obsolete.

A university study determined #wikipedia STEM related articles are untrustworthy. Well no shit! #wikipediasucks https://t.co/vGiAPq8Zxa

While 28 articles seems way too low to draw sweeping conclusions, this is a really interesting article I will definitely be sharing with my students.

RT @WikiResearch: "The First Paragraph Is As Good As It Gets": University teachers evaluated 28 English Wikipedia articles about STEM topic…

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