Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Rowan College at Burlington County/Society, Ethics, and Technology-Spring 2021 (Spring 2021)
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- Course name
- Society, Ethics, and Technology-Spring 2021
- Institution
- Rowan College at Burlington County
- Instructor
- Edem
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Sociology
- Course dates
- 2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-05-16 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 40
This course provides a framework for understanding the ways in which technology has transformed society and for assessing the social-ethical global environmental and professional issues associated with these changes. Students will also have the opportunity to conduct investigations into the following areas: professional responsibility ethical implications respect for diversity and the need for life-long learning.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 29 January 2021
- Assignment - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' workspaces. Please use the deadlines for the Wikipedia weekly assignments located on the Course Schedule document. DISREGARD THE WEEKLY DEADLINES ON THIS PAGE.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link on the blackboard. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off-campus or the next day.)
- Assignment - Getting a Wikipedia account
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 5 February 2021
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Exercise
Week 2 Training and exercise will help you to know the criteria for a good article. Precisely, you will be able to evaluate Wikipedia articles as good or not based on certain criteria, which are explained in the training.
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
For this week, you will choose an article in Wikipedia that is related to one or a mix of the themes of the class (Technology, Society, and Ethics). Then, create a section in your sandbox titled "Article Evaluation" where you will review your article. Please follow the template provided in the “Exercise” section. It is made of step by step instructional questions that will guide you in evaluating your article.
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PS: Do not worry about the “Mark Complete” for the optional activity. After finishing to evaluate your article just hit the “publish changes” and your work will be saved for my examination.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 12 February 2021
- Assignment - Choose possible topics
Exercise
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
To complete the week 3 assignment, you are just required to choose an article for your Wikipedia contribution and assign it to yourself. This should be based on the topics discussed in this class such as technology, society, and ethics. However, there is no right or wrong answer to this question. Therefore, you don't have to submit your choice to me. Please do not forget to look into the “Exercise” rubric; You will find a set of information that will guide you on how you can begin the search for a potential article of your choice to improve. Good luck.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 19 February 2021
- In class - ARTICLE SUMMARY
In this assignment, you are required to write a summary of your article. This will help to highlight the main points of each section of your article and quickly apprehend its nature. Please, go to your sandbox and create a new section called "Summary" and use it to write your work.
Your summary should clearly state the following:
· The context of the article.
· The main objectives.
· The most important results.
The summary should clearly pinpoint the innovative aspect of the topic.
The length of your summary should be at least 100 words.
The summary must be independent of the article and should be able to read without consulting the article.
The summary should not contain references to the literature, figures, or tables in the article.
The summary should not contain acronyms or abbreviations unless they are known and conventional.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 26 February 2021
- Assignment - Exercise
Finalize your topic / Find your sources
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
This week's assignment is more practical because you will learn how to add citations to the article that you have selected in week 3.
To complete the assignment, go to your sandbox and create a new section called "Bibliography" or "Notes” and use it to jot down a few notes about the sources. Please do not forget to look into the Exercise rubric "add a citation" there is a set of information that explains in detail how to effectively add the citations.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 5 March 2021
- In class - Literature Review
In this assignment, you will make a report of some information pertaining to your chosen article topic of interest. This will help you to determine what further research can be conducted. you are required to create a new section, with the title “assignment 6” and use it to answer a number of questions. Below are the questions that your literature review should answer.
1. Provide the title of your article
2. What are the key ideas?
3. What are the main problems addressed/ identified?
4. why your chosen topic was worth undertaking?
5. what are the technological standpoints?
6. what are the ethical standpoints?
7. what are the societal standpoints?
8. Which audience is influenced by the article?
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 12 March 2021
- Assignment - Start drafting your contribution to the Wikipedia article
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
Go through your chosen article looking for any place you can provide additional information which will make the current form of the article stronger by showing your understanding of the topic.
An effective way to add great content, for instance, is to find additional sources that support the conclusions you have made yourself from the article. The more sources you have, the stronger your contribution will be. Or you can even look for statements made throughout the article where inserting an example would be appropriate to help support the statement.
Arranging all these personal and rigorous analyses about the article into a well-written 500 words paragraph in YOUR USER SANDBOX is the required task for week 7.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page. Review the Wikipedia on the course menu on Blackboard for more details on the requirements. Wikipedia Project Details
PS: Please do not forget to complete the training modules and to create a new section with the title “assignment7” where you will write your paragraph.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 19 March 2021
- Assignment - Peer review an article
- Assignment - Peer reviews are complete
I hope everybody is comfortable with her/his selected article by now. This week focuses on how to critique an article created by a classmate.
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
Here are the steps to follow in reviewing your fellow learner’s article and to complete assignment 8.
Firstly, click on the “students” tab on your course page. You will see the list of your peers’ articles, in front of their names. Then select the article you will mostly like to review.
Secondly, when you are ready to perform the peer review, click on the “sandboxes” tab of whose article you selected. You will find the “sandboxes” right below his/her name. Then successively,
• Go to the talk page.
• Click "New section".
• Add a subject, something like "Samantha's peer review".
• Leave your notes in the space below. (in the guiding framework of assignment 8, you have a set of information that explains in detail how to effectively evaluate your peer's work)
• Save the page by pressing on “Publish Changes”
Finally, go in your own sandbox and create a section titled: “Assignment 8 ”: where you will leave a note something like: “Samantha peer-reviewed John’s article”. This is very important.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 26 March 2021
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
Once your article is reviewed, and you made changes, that you would consider significant, go to your sandbox and create a new section, with the title “assignment 9” where you will say whether the suggestions that were made to you were helpful in regards to improve your article or not. If you have not received any comment on your article, please keep working on editing it based on the synthesis of your own insights and clearly say this under “assignment 9” in your sandbox.
PS: If you didn’t receive any feedback from your fellow classmates, you have the option of seeking assistance from Wikipedia’s staff to eventually receive valuable points of view about your work. The feedback can serve you to gradually improve your article.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 2 April 2021
- Start improving your article
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
Start reading your draft by reviewing grammar and spelling to style and tone. Fix the grammatical errors and check out thoroughly whether your ideas are connected in a relevant way to make a compelling article. Find the perfect words to express yourself.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 9 April 2021
- In class - Reorganizing drafts
continue to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 16 April 2021
- Assignment - Adding at least 4 images
Exercise
Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper
To complete this week’s assignment, you are required to add 4 more images to your article and Keep working on it editing sentences that seem unclear or have any style errors, to be sure you have a well-structured and fully researched article as much as possible.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 23 April 2021
- In class - Examine the outline
You are almost at the end of the project. Now it’s time to focus on your outline. Look at your article and address your top concerns, about coherence, cohesiveness, overall logic, and transitions. Please keep refining your work and completing the training modules.
PS: Do not forget to keep track of the schedule available under the “syllabus &course schedule” tab and work on the assignments on the blackboard accordingly.
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 30 April 2021
- Assignment - Polish your work
No work will be submitted this week on your Wikipedia talk page, however, you are required to continue improving and formatting your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
PS: Your work will remain in sandboxes this term in an effort to help the Wikipedia staff manage their work load amid a high volume of articles and reduced staff capacity. Therefore, moving work into Wikipedia's mainspace is not a compulsory assignment you are required to do. Only the final paper you will upload on the blackboard will be graded.
Week 15
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 7 May 2021
- In class - Completed Wikipedia assignment! Submit your final project to Blackboard
Everyone should have finished all the work that needs to be completed on Wikipedia. You should now be ready to submit your final paper on Blackboard.
PS: You will try to use your changes and enhancements to create your final paper.
Your term paper is the conclusion of the semester-long draft of the article that you selected. You need to provide more information especially your personal point of view about whether or not your chosen article is of sufficient quality and relevance. Also whether the understanding of how the article is organized and what it is attempting to accomplish is clear and appropriate to you or not. And use all of this information to create an essay to an academic level and submit it on the Blackboard. A set of information is available for you to consult in unit 15 on the blackboard, for further guidance.