The Sheep are almost ready for shearing

Post #186,701 by tuberculosis 12/10/04 12:45:05 PM 8/21/07 6:40:06 AM Reply	The Sheep are almost ready for shearing [link\|http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/09/awaysonline.reliable.ap/index.html\|http://www.cnn.com/2...ble.ap/index.html] Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy. When students do research online these days, many educators worry, those are often about the only steps they take. If they can avoid a trip to the library at all, many students gladly will. Young people may know that just because information is plentiful online doesn't mean it's reliable, yet their perceptions of what's trustworthy frequently differ from their elders' -- sparking a larger debate about what constitutes truth in the Internet age. --- This is both sad and frightening. When I was in school, I used to go to the library on Sundays to do homework, explore for interesting books, and meet friends. It was kind of social. My local library here seems nice, but the hours are much too short. Closing Sundays at 6:00? Post supper is when I want to go browse the stacks. The frightening bit is how easy it is going to be to manipulate "reality". Its already happening with TV news becoming more and more blatant in reporting outright lies. Soon the computer data stores will succumb to manipulation and tampering as well. Dangerous times. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:40:06 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #186,704 by ben_tilly 12/10/04 12:53:31 PM Reply	Almost? I think that this administration has managed to get some good wool from the sheeple. More to come... Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #186,707 by JayMehaffey 12/10/04 12:57:34 PM Reply	Re: The Sheep are almost ready for shearing Soon the computer data stores will succumb to manipulation and tampering as well. Soon? Try already did. The only advantage the internet has is that there is so much stuff thrown out there that you can find good stuff yourself if you know how to filter it. Which is what schools should have been teaching students all along. Students don't need to be taught to go look something up, they can figure that out on their own. Knowing enough to tell valid information from non-information is quickly becoming the single most important knowledge skill there is. Unfortunatly, schools often gloss over or ignore this topic entirly. Most teachers don't like teaching students to question the validity of authority, since the first thing they question is the teachers. Jay
Post #186,754 by drewk 12/11/04 5:08:56 PM Reply	Heard a teacher discussing this in NPR She said she tries as hard as she can to get students to question what's in the books. But they don't want to. They want to know the "right" answer. It's simpler. Just tell them what the "truth" is so they can remember it and regurgitate it on the test. Please don't confuse them with the idea that various "authorities" don't all agree. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]

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