November 30, 2007

Wikipedia banned at school

There seems to be a growing trend for schools to ban things that help the pupils to understand their work or produce better work to help them with their studies, so why ban something that would help achieve better results?

Well this is what a school in New Jersey has done, the Warren Hills Regional District School has blocked all access to Wikipedia from the school computers, obviously the reason is that not everything in Wiki is absolutely correct, and therefore if students are going to use this as the main source of information then they may be getting the information wrong.

Source [Ars Technica]