I am the lizard king

Earlier this year Ian Grove-Stephensen, in explaining how the Wikipedia works, shared a reflection on knowledge production:

I went through school believing that knowledge was something that came exclusively from outside my personal universe. It came in textbooks and it came in encyclopaedias. It certainly did not come from me or anyone I knew.

Now, excited by the democratic and collaborative knowledge production opportunities wikis allow, Stephen Downes reports that Ian and colleague Steve Margetts have gone on to found the WikiTextbook project and are hoping to do for GCSE and A level textbooks what Wikipedia has done for encyclopaedias. (WikiTextbook follows in the footsteps of similar projects like OpenTextBook and Wikipedia's sister project Wikibook).

Ian and Steve's belief that students should be developing their netizenship by contributing to ventures like Wikipedia and WikiTextbook is affirmed by students like these (also via Stephen Downes) who are actively producing knowledge and strengthening community ties—a project that could have come straight from Chris Bigum's KPS agenda:

Working with local community, doing research that is valued by and valuable to local interests, the knowledge producing school takes seriously the task of preparing students for a world in which knowledge and its production are increasingly important.

I'm certain the Waterville Elementary School students have plenty to add to the Wikipedia entry on short-horned lizards?