[KarlInOhio]

She claims that many undergraduates arrive at university unable to discriminate between anecdotal and unsubstantiated material posted on the internet.

That's a problem whether dealing with the internet or the New York Times.

[Aristotelian]

Again, I say, the Internet is merely a tool, like a public library. How people use it depends on a combination of factors. One of them is how well they were taught to think.

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.