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

[B.G. Sloan]

  Just noticed a reaction from a Times columnist:
   
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/magnus_linklater/article3193083.ece
   
  Bernie Sloan

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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