Teaching with Wikipedia on Mandatory Isolation Times: An Experience from Argentina

Abstract

In this context globally known as the Coronavirus Pandemic and the mandatory virtual education in which the school year in Argentina passed, the debates on educational inequality deepened and the right to access to connectivity was one of the main issues at stake. Faced with this situation, and in dialogue with our educational community, from Wikimedia Argentina we had to readapt the existing proposals to the new modality. Thus, the series "Teaching with Wikipedia" was born, five educational booklets that seek to work with Wikimedia tools from a critical perspective.

In this paper, we present a preliminary analysis of the use of this material through the analysis of a survey carried out among teachers who received it. As main results, the broad connectivity difficulties stand out, especially in the homes of the students; the need to think of ways of working on digital literacy from strategies without connectivity; and how teachers train and use available materials. We are particularly interested in highlighting the role of teachers as critical producers of their classes and materials and the place of digital literacy in providing them with the tools to do so.