I saw an interesting short piece on Wired’s website about a college banning Wikipedia references from assignments (papers). This does represent a real worry when it comes to marking assignments.
Many students are too credulous when it comes to the information printed on the Internet. It is essential to find more than one source for your information so that you can check its validity. I had one student last year telling me that Yahoo was the only search engine to offer categories rather than a crawler based search. That was true five years ago, but their source document was at least that old. You have to check your facts.
