Google is “white bread for the mind"

 
  From the Times of bond:
   
  "Google is 'white bread for the mind', and the
internet is producing a generation of students who survive
on a diet of unreliable information, a professor of media
studies will claim this week...Her own students are banned
from using Wikipedia or Google as research tools in their
first year of study".
   
  Full text:
   
  http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece

   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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And just how does she propose to keep them from using these
tools?

She'll magically keep them from using WP and then following
links from
it to other sources?

She'll magically keep them from using Google?  So is Yahoo
ok?

And this is a professor of MEDIA STUDIES?  So they're going
to avoid
key tools in a key medium?

And she says:
"But students do not know how to tell if they come from
serious, refereed work
or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial surfing
and
fleeting commitments."

And she's not going to TEACH them how to determine what is
good, bad
or indifferent?  Does she teach that regarding
"traditional sources"?

What is totally off base here is her ideas, and just as
strange is
that this made THE Times.  (Not just the NY Times, but THE
Times)

dan


Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 7:45:58 AM, you wrote:

>   "Google is 'white bread for the mind', and the
internet is producing a generation of
> students who survive on a diet of unreliable
information, a professor of media studies
> will claim this week...Her own students are banned from
using Wikipedia or Google as
> research tools in their first year of study".
>    
>   Full text:
>    
>  
> http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece





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I think that, when it comes to consuming any media, it's
useful to do
all sorts of limiting and focusing things. As an ancient
Greek
professor of mine said, you should read in a variety of
ways:
sometimes slowly, pondering the construction of every
sentence and
looking up every word you don't know, sometimes quickly,
never
rereading not looking anything up. Similarly, there's a lot
of value
in those courses where, basically, you do nothing but read
the NYT.

I don't think going Google-less makes any long-term sense,
but, as a
focusing mechanism, I think it's a great idea.

T

On 1/16/08, Dan Lester <danriverofdata.com> wrote:
> And just how does she propose to keep them from using
these tools?
>
> She'll magically keep them from using WP and then
following links from
> it to other sources?
>
> She'll magically keep them from using Google?  So is
Yahoo ok?
>
> And this is a professor of MEDIA STUDIES?  So they're
going to avoid
> key tools in a key medium?
>
> And she says:
> "But students do not know how to tell if they come
from serious, refereed work
> or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial
surfing and
> fleeting commitments."
>
> And she's not going to TEACH them how to determine what
is good, bad
> or indifferent?  Does she teach that regarding
"traditional sources"?
>
> What is totally off base here is her ideas, and just as
strange is
> that this made THE Times.  (Not just the NY Times, but
THE Times)
>
> dan
>
>
> Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 7:45:58 AM, you wrote:
>
> >   "Google is 'white bread for the mind', and
the internet is producing a generation of
> > students who survive on a diet of unreliable
information, a professor of media studies
> > will claim this week...Her own students are banned
from using Wikipedia or Google as
> > research tools in their first year of
study".
> >
> >   Full text:
> >
> >
> > http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece

>
>
>
>
> --
> The road goes on forever and the party never ends. REK,
Jr.
> Dan Lester, Boise, ID
>
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