This project is an example of how open platforms and cultural institutions can support K-12 education to develop pedagogies and collaborations to foster diversity in online participation of public spaces. 230 students in K-12 education from both minority and dominant communities in the city of Stockholm participated in 2016. The topic is the school's local geography, culture and historic environment, encouraging a pedagogical approach of examining the local neighbourhood's past, present and future. Digital platforms and media in the project are commons driven and under CC by or CC by-sa licenses. Three main platforms are involved - the national website platsr.se, run by the Swedish National Heritage Board, the free encyclopedia for children wikimini.se and the Swedish language version of the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. The Wikipedia education program, actively running in Sweden since 2013, positions students as collaborators and knowledge producers in the world's largest encyclopedia while developing digital literacies characterised by a resident mode of online engagement. This OER project takes its starting point in the Wikipedia program and adds a pedagogical framework to support complexity in terms of diversity of linguistic genres and difference of perspectives, such as dealing with facts and opinions. Incentives from teachers who joined the project from outer city schools were founded on the willingness to teach students that their knowledge and expertise of their local area and communities count, and how to take action to validate it and claim ownership of the historic environment and the diversity of traces it holds. Such ideas connect classroom activities in open online environments with aspects of critical pedagogy.
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