Reprise of Ideas

I read an article for another class which really made me think.

We are in essence giving children tools that they already know how to use. It is our duty to show them how they can use these tools to make something out of what they find. As we encourage students to explore the internet and "learn on their own" there are multiple consequences. As with most media related operations you have to take them with a grain of salt. We have recently been taught how to dissect the information we come across on the internet and growing up with the internet we have found that not all we see online is at it seems.

Perhaps the children of the next generation will already be able to decipher fact from fiction as technology is becoming more and more frequent in learning sitations at a younger age. But we have to take this knowledge they are attaining on their own and show them what to do with it. Telling a student to do research is one thing because with the internet at their fingertips it truly is quite simlple. Research to a student is pretty much just click and find it is that simple but it is much harder for them to compute it into something of their own opinion, I am always formulating my own opinions from things said and written but not every student looks into it that much. It is our job to show them how meaningful this information can become to make it their own and publish their thoughts and ideas of such a matter in a form resembling this, a blog.

A blog is a pandora's box of sorts though. It is very opionated and in times can lose focus of where the facts come from and whether they are valid or not. I may be a cynic but you have to take information found on the internet with a grain of salt. As stated before some students just click and take for granted what they researched without finding other sources to validate their find. It is a much more arduous process than what it seems and validation truly is needed and we need to branch out to students to realize this.