[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.
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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.