There are not different skills, and I think what you are saying is absolutely true. As a librarian, though, I would say that in the past, we have relied on librarians, teachers, etc, to do a first pass through of materials that students used to use in their research. In other words, as a student doing a research paper, you would traditionally start with the library at your school or in your hometown. Librarians would be spending money to purchase books that had a certain credibility factor. With the Internet, you now have access to everything, with no one making a first pass. This is actually pretty exciting and opens us up to lots more available information. But, we do need to be more vigilant in teaching people how to evaluate what they find.
siobhan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Rosen Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:22 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Should Students be Premitted to Use the Internet as aResource for Research Assignments? Jayne and others, Is there anything significantly and inherently different in the set of critical skills needed to evaluate information one gets from Internet from the information one gets from print and other visual media such as film and video. Shouldn't we be teaching -- in Research Skills courses -- and in others, a range of skills for judging the quality of information which includes text, charts and graphs, images, audio and video in any medium? If there are an additional set of critical thinking skills which apply only to information from the Internet, could someone tell me what those are? Thanks, David J. Rosen On Feb 15, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Jayne, Kimberly wrote: > While the Internet is an invaluable resource for today's research > assignments, it does have its downfalls. David mentioned the > network going > down as one problem. A more serious problem is that students believe > everything on the Internet is true. They do not realize that > ANYONE can put > ANYTHING on a web page and claim that it is true, accurate > information. > They need to be taught, perhaps in a Research Skills course, the > specific > skills necessary to finding accurate information on the Internet. > Many > educators require students to use both print and electronic resources, > thereby providing a print/accurate verification of the electronic > information. > > Kimberly Jayne, Staff Developer > Eastern Suffolk BOCES > 15 Andrea Road > Holbrook, NY 11741 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David P. Dillard > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Digital Divide Network > discussion > group; Digital Divide Diversity MLS > Subject: [DDN] Should Students be Premitted to Use the Internet as a > Resource for Research Assignments? > > > > > Of possible interest to the members of this group. > > > > > From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:46 am > Subject: OPINION : EDUCATION: INTERNET: ISSUES: Should Students be > Premitted to Use the Internet as a Resource for Research Assignments? > <">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/11111> > > > > > > > Sincerely, > David Dillard > Temple University > (215) 204 - 4584 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Net-Gold > <">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> > <">http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> > Temple University Listserv Net-Gold Archives > <">http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> > </">http://www.lifeofflorida.org>/ > Digital Divide Network > <">http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne> > Educator-Gold > <">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/> > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of > the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
