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PESTANA, Filomena  e  CARDOSO, Teresa. Integrating Wikipedia in Portuguese basic education: the example of a teacher training course. Educ. Form. Tecnol. [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.1, pp.20-35. ISSN 1646-933X.  https://doi.org/10.1549/1646933Xv10n120172035.

There is an undeniable contribution to the democratization of access to information in the Wikipedia. At the same time, if we consider the student population, it is one of the main sources of research, especially for school work. In this context, despite its success, Wikipedia is not yet part of the classrooms. Thus, it is assumed that the teacher should consider the urgency of meeting the increasing challenges of the technological society, and prepare pupils/students for them. It is therefore important to focus on the training of teachers, and to explore with them the potential of Wikipedia, a global project. That is why we developed a local project, which we present in this text. Our project, part of a Teacher Training course, took place in a School in the Lisbon district and involved two teachers and two classes (6th and 8th grade).

We adopted the project methodology, so our work was organized in four stages: Diagnosis; Planning; Application/implementation; Evaluation. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. From the results we obtained, we highlight both the recognition by the teachers, with whom we worked, of the relevance of the training and their final satisfaction, as well as the quality of the work they developed in the activities we suggested to them and the work carried out with their pupils.

We conclude, therefore, that the formative and pedagogical practices had real impact on the classroom work. Thus, we hope that those practices can be maintained and extended to other teachers and pupils, namely of other Portuguese elementary schools.

Palavras-chave : 2nd and 3rd Cycles of Portuguese Basic Education; Teacher Training; Wikipedia Education Program; Open Educational Resources; Wikipedia.

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