Re: [Web4lib] Google is “white bread for the mind"

[Tim Spalding]

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 <dan at riverofdata.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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece
>
>
>
>
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> Dan Lester, Boise, ID
>
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