Internet Verification?
An answer to "many students have difficulty recognizing trustworthy sources, though perhaps the underlying problem is a lack of understanding of the Internet as an unmonitored
source of information." from " "Critical Thinking in the Internet Era"
When in high school, I don't recall the professors hammering it into our heads how unreliable the internet could be. Of course there was definetly an unspoken consideration of it, but from that day forward we really only knew that we could not solely base our research just with information from the Net. Maybe part of it is the naivety of youth in believing that people are actually going to be truthful about what they are telling you, especially in something so "official" as a web site. Even though we know that everyone, including us lowly young ones, can make a space for ourselves on the Net, teens are usually putting personal insights or opinions, not claiming to have information vital for someone's reports. I'm not making excuses and I'm not blaming anyone, I just like to have all sides to an argument presented. The article used words such as disheartening and concerning one to many times in my opinion. Maybe I'm just defending myself, since I never really wanted to believe that advertisers, or anyone for that matter, would deliberately lie to the people just for their own profit. It's the sacrifice of having free, unfettered space out there to say what you want to say, I suppose. I will admit part of the lack of verification is laziness on the part of the students. No one wants to spend the time verifying the information, especially if it took a person long enough just to find that information in the first place. I do believe that at an early age the students should be informed how seriously lacking the governing of the information on the Net really is. It almost seems sad to expect such cynisism at such a young age, though. However, I don't know how sympathetic I can truly be to that plea, since I have in the end always chosen the painful knowledge over the ignorant happiness. It seems the goal of the artical was accurate in its want to teach students critical thinking when they use the Net.
source of information." from " "Critical Thinking in the Internet Era"
When in high school, I don't recall the professors hammering it into our heads how unreliable the internet could be. Of course there was definetly an unspoken consideration of it, but from that day forward we really only knew that we could not solely base our research just with information from the Net. Maybe part of it is the naivety of youth in believing that people are actually going to be truthful about what they are telling you, especially in something so "official" as a web site. Even though we know that everyone, including us lowly young ones, can make a space for ourselves on the Net, teens are usually putting personal insights or opinions, not claiming to have information vital for someone's reports. I'm not making excuses and I'm not blaming anyone, I just like to have all sides to an argument presented. The article used words such as disheartening and concerning one to many times in my opinion. Maybe I'm just defending myself, since I never really wanted to believe that advertisers, or anyone for that matter, would deliberately lie to the people just for their own profit. It's the sacrifice of having free, unfettered space out there to say what you want to say, I suppose. I will admit part of the lack of verification is laziness on the part of the students. No one wants to spend the time verifying the information, especially if it took a person long enough just to find that information in the first place. I do believe that at an early age the students should be informed how seriously lacking the governing of the information on the Net really is. It almost seems sad to expect such cynisism at such a young age, though. However, I don't know how sympathetic I can truly be to that plea, since I have in the end always chosen the painful knowledge over the ignorant happiness. It seems the goal of the artical was accurate in its want to teach students critical thinking when they use the Net.
posted by road2mars at 5:01 PM
1 Comments:
You brought up some good points which were stated very well and it was interesting to see your point of view. I agree on how hard it is to find something on the internet and then have to find out if you can believe it or not, especially for people who aren't computer literate enough to be able to decipher fact from fiction.
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