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[MUSIC - BEETHOVEN, "MOONLIGHT
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[Arabic]
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One thing I have
discovered all these years
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is that students are eager
to do things differently.
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I think that the
new approach should
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be we are going
to learn together,
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and we are going to decide
what to learn and how to learn.
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And for me, Wikipedia
is an ideal space
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to make this happen
because it's an open space.
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It's an open environment.
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It's digital, and
everything you do
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is there for everybody
in the world.
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One of the things
which we introduced
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was to ask students to
register with their real names.
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They can prove that they have
contributed to Wikipedia--
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to show them to
future employers.
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[Arabic SPEECH]
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What we try to tell them is
that the students themselves
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are improving.
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Their skills in English
or in any other language
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they are learning improves
when they add to Wikipedia.
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[Arabic]
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