--- title: Five Best Ideas: Wikipedia Teaches Kids Digital Literacy description: Editing Wikipedia entries can teach kids digital literacy, how typography could have prevented the epic Oscar snafu and more. canonical: https://time.com/4688425/editing-wikipedia-teaches-kids-digital-literacy/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-02T17:00:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:01.763Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Editing Wikipedia Teaches Kids Digital Literacy og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4688425/editing-wikipedia-teaches-kids-digital-literacy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Editing Wikipedia Teaches Kids Digital Literacy twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Editing Wikipedia Teaches Kids Digital Literacy by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 2, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 2, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how editing Wikipedia entries can teach kids digital literacy.**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/02/22/what-writing-wikipedia-entries-can-teach-students-about-digital-literacy/) By Anya Kamenetz at _KQED’s Mind/Shift_ **2\.** [**How typography could have prevented the epic Oscar snafu.**](https://medium.com/@benjaminbannister/why-typography-matters-especially-at-the-oscars-f7b00e202f22#.v2pxguret) By benjamin bannister in _Free Code Camp_ **3\.** [**Meet the female plumbers, electricians and carpenters helping domestic violence survivors feel safe.**](https://broadly.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/meet-the-female-tradesmen-making-domestic-violence-victims-feel-safe) By Sammi Taylor in _Broadly_ **4\.** [**What boring tech will unlock our energy future? Batteries.**](http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-future-will-be-battery-powered/) By Amelia Urry in _Grist_ **5\.** [**To automate high finance, start with this software that does in seconds what took lawyers 360,000 hours.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/jpmorgan-marshals-an-army-of-developers-to-automate-high-finance) By Hugh Son in _Bloomberg_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4688425/editing-wikipedia-teaches-kids-digital-literacy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4688425/editing-wikipedia-teaches-kids-digital-literacy/"},"headline":"Editing Wikipedia Teaches Kids Digital Literacy","datePublished":"2017-03-02T17:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:01.763Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4688425/editing-wikipedia-teaches-kids-digital-literacy/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","energy","Oscars","finance","domestic violence","Wikipedia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4688425/editing-wikipedia-teaches-kids-digital-literacy/","name":"Editing Wikipedia Teaches Kids Digital Literacy"}}]}] ```