What a marxist. >Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
Posted on 01/13/2008 7:44:46 PM PST by Aristotelian
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.
In her inaugural lecture at the University of Brighton, Tara Brabazon will urge teachers at all levels of the education system to equip students with the skills they need to interpret and sift through information gleaned from the internet.
She believes that easy access to information has dulled students’ sense of curiosity and is stifling debate. She claims that many undergraduates arrive at university unable to discriminate between anecdotal and unsubstantiated material posted on the internet.
“I call this type of education ‘the University of Google’.
“Google offers easy answers to difficult questions. 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at technology.timesonline.co.uk ...
What a marxist. >Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
My brother is a history professor. He says that many of his students don’t seem to understand that research only begins with the internet. His students are not in the habit of turning to books for information.
William Tyndale, c.1494–1536, was an English biblical translator and Protestant martyr. He was determined to translate the New Testament into English. Tyndale went to Hamburg in 1524, visited Martin Luther in Wittenberg, and at Cologne began (1525) the printing of the New Testament.
Cardinal Wolsey ordered Tyndale seized at Worms. Living in concealment, Tyndale pursued his translation, issuing the Pentateuch (1530) and the Book of Jonah (1536). His work was later the basis of the King James Version of the Bible. Tyndale was seized (1535) in Antwerp and confined in Vilvoorde Castle, near Brussels. His trial ended in condemnation for heresy, and he was strangled at the stake before his body was burned.
See The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ty/Tyndale.html
That's a problem whether dealing with the internet or the New York Times.
There is virtually no difference between a Book and a LCD Monitor, both is Language, Letters and Reading.
Take math. Why is it taught beyond rudimentary arithmetic to balance a checkbook? The answer is, math teaches us abstract reasoning. That’s why it is so important.
Students don’t know how to use the information on the Net probably because their teachers failed them. The kids aren’t to blame. Their teachers are.
“My ordering and purchase of books has increased considerably since having a PC”
Arrggg! I remember the years of trying to find every used book store in the yellow pages when I visited another city, with no idea of what they might have of interest to me, and of the local shop that had a functional semi-monopoly on the topics that interested me.
The internet (Abebooks.com specifically) changed that in a way that was unimaginable 20 years ago.
Google may be “white bread” but then, by further analogy, the Democrats are “marshmallow fluff on white bread” or the intellectual equivalent of a “fluffernutter” sandwich. Hey, Hillary, can we have another fluffernutter?
http://www.marshmallowfluff.com/pages/fluffernutter.html
Sounds like the liberal Colleges are being exposed. Hard to lie and only show one side to any issue when people can fact check what you are saying.
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It’s akin to saying, “Public libraries are to blame for illiteracy.”
The most important thing a person needs to develop is a good “BS Meter”, and schools don’t do a good job of that.
Your reply to my post noted. I immediately used Google (laughs). I bookmarked the site. Now for another chuckle. Years ago in England I read an 1812 edition of "Prize Fighters Past And Present". Author Pierce Egan. It belonged to a local library. The volumes cost $3.500, as in original form. Collectors items. I knew that about twenty years ago, copies were made and cost $50.
I had tried in vain to get a copy. (None in stock).Can you believe it? Abebooks.com has information that more reprints were made in 2002. The copy will cost $19.95. True, by the time the book will come to Canada, I may fork out about $35.
I have wanted to read that book again for years.
Thank you lots.
Unsettling for them, I'm sure.
“Thank you lots.”
You are very welcome. Abebooks has been around many years as a used book inventory list. Originally you had to send payment separately to each vendor (quite an extra step, given the communication required), but a few years ago they started centrally processsing credit cards.
Amazon offers the same service now (and usually the same books, as dealers put their stock on both lists) but Abe still seems to have more depth/participation, and also has foreign dealers as well.
For rare and ancient titles, Abebooks is the only way to go, as amazon doesn’t even put that stuff on their site.
“—— but we did develop the skill set to research and disseminate-——”
True.
I spent hours in the Boston Public Library’s research room. No copiers around then,just tons of hand-written notes.
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