{"id":2231,"date":"2010-01-08T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/wikipedia-making-children-stupid\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T18:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:12:01","slug":"wikipedia-making-children-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/08\/wikipedia-making-children-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Making Children Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/6943325\/Schoolchildren-told-to-avoid-Wikipedia.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Telegraph UK<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Schoolchildren told to avoid Wikipedia<\/h1>\n<h2>Children should use Google and Yahoo to improve their essays, according to the official exams watchdog.<\/h2>\n<p>[G]uidance sent out to schoolchildren in England warns pupils to be extremely wary when using other websites such as Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedysigns.com\/signs\/DANGER_Do_Not_Enter.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.speedysigns.com\/images\/osha\/large\/DANGER15.gif\" align=\"left\" height=\"170\" width=\"240\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The on-line encyclopaedia \u2013 created using contributions from readers \u2013 was not \u201cauthoritative or accurate\u201d and in some cases \u201cmay be completely untrue\u201d, said Ofqual.<\/p>\n<p>Children can also be easily tripped up by copying passages from websites containing American phrases and spellings \u2013 a clear sign of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made in a series of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofqual.gov.uk\/2719.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #234b7b\">documents<\/a>\u00a0sent to pupils, parents and teachers warning against cheating at school.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/6943325\/Schoolchildren-told-to-avoid-Wikipedia.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph UK Schoolchildren told to avoid Wikipedia Children should use Google and Yahoo to improve their essays, according to the official exams watchdog. [G]uidance sent out to schoolchildren in England warns pupils to be extremely wary when using other websites such as Wikipedia. The on-line encyclopaedia \u2013 created using contributions from readers \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}