Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with thousands of contributors, hundreds of paid editors, almost four million articles, automatic daily deletions of textual additions by anyone without a verified account, multiple languages, on-going fact checking, and live updates of current events. I’ll try and say this as gently as possibleįor general research and gathering of foundational knowledge, Wikipedia is as good or better than other forms of encyclopedias. It’s not really a surprise, is it? Owning a four figure set of books that are out-of-date as soon as you crack them open in the age of instant information just doesn’t make sense.Ĭan we trust instant, online information?Ĭan we trust Wikipedia? Should we let our students use it for historical research?įor all you social studies teachers out there who aren’t letting your students use Wikipedia as one of their research tools.
And just when I was getting psyched up to pay $1,395 for the 32 volume set. The print version of Encyclopedia Britannica is no longer.
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