yea, too bad that wikipedia is the only place online to get information. Maybe somebody could look into this problem. Is wikipedia a monopoly? Maybe the government should look into it and split it up. It is not a good idea to just have one website with all of the worlds information. What happens if they have a network problem or a computer outage. All of the worlds information would be lost.
Andy0 ----- Original Message ----- I was responding directly to your assertion that they do “off-line lookups”, so other online sources wasn’t part of your original argument. I think you assume that everyone has access to a well-stocked library, but that is not the case for everyone. I know several municipalities around here either have no library or one with just a few hundred books. So a fifth grader that doesn’t have a local library should bicycle 20 miles (or more) to a larger city and do their research or they deserve to fail? We’ll just have to disagree on that. Should kids learn how to use a library? Sure, but I wonder if we will even have as many of those as we do today in 10-20 years. Things are going in a different direction. Look to New York today and see what is likely the beginning of the end of traditional textbooks. Kindles and iPads are already killing all the bookstores. Printed books aren’t likely to go away anytime in the near future, but they will certainly be diminished. Public libraries will probably have less and less physical books and become more and more just public places to go for internet access. From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. Again, tough. If their only avenue of research is Wikipedia, they deserve to fail. Not only is offline do-able, but there are also other online sources. Let alone doing primary source research themselves rather than going through an aggregator. From: "Mayo, Bill" <bem...@pittcountync.gov> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:07:04 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: Whoa...wkikpedia. The world has changed. I don’t think researching offline is as practical as it was when I was a kid. Back then, I had a set of encyclopedias. My kids certainly don’t have that today, and encyclopedias are, frankly, antiquated. I know that my kids’ teachers expect them to do research on the internet for their projects. It’s kind of like how difficult it would be to research Windows Server problems without the internet these days. From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. Tough. Then they deserve to fail. From: "Rod Trent" <rodtr...@myitforum.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:08:57 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: Whoa...wkikpedia. Yeah…that’s going to happen… Best next excuse to “the dog ate my homework” From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. 'Fail classes because of it'? A) over-melodramatic B) tough shit. Best they learn to do real off-line lookups as well then. From: "Rod Trent" < rodtr...@myitforum.com > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:17:10 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues< ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" < ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > Subject: RE: Whoa...wkikpedia. Yeah…bunch of high school and college kids are going to fail some classes because of it. It’s a good cause, but probably not the best way to go about it. http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/01/18/help-us-help-youend-piracy-not-liberty/ From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Whoa...wkikpedia. Anyone been there today? 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