Shock tactics for teachers

The 2011 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New Brunswick heard from Brenna Grey, who has been studying what happens when students are told their work will be used on Wikipedia: it turns out that they try harder to make sure it's correct, and so Gray calls for more acceptance of Wikipedia in the classroom.

We'd suggest you'd have the same improvement if you threatened to give electric shocks for bad work - and it would be more fun for the teachers. But we're not advocating more acceptance for educational electric shocks - except, perhaps, for the worst 30 or 40 per cent of kids.