whatever happened to actually thinking, visiting your local library, and opening up a book? do they not teach you in school that the internet is not a valid source? especially wikiipedia.com... any genius can go on there and change information.
oh, wait, i forgot... you can just post your basic questions on here and all the educated people can answer them without you having to crack a book....
2006-09-23 09:01:04 · 13 answers · asked by christy 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
i.e. these students will have real problems when they go to college and the internet/wikipedia is not allowed to be used for research & as a valid source.
2006-09-23 09:13:33 · update #1
when i was in high school the internet was considered a valid source, but in college it is not considered acceptable because it takes too long for professors to weed out the many crap sources from the good ones when they are grading research papers. wikipedia is completely banned in my college courses, and my professors consider it the least credible option... so go argue with them. they want us to learn how to use the library for better sources because in when you are studying history (my expertise is art history, the ancient romans specifically) your best sources are the rare library publications. any college will have a library and schools usually have a library in them or very close.
web sites like this are great for sharing ideas and knowledge. that is why i am here. i like to share what i have learned, but i dont like to do peoples homework for them. i did mine in high school (most of the time), so you should do yours!
2006-09-23 16:02:56 · update #2
Thank you.
(LATER)
What are they going to do when a test comes up? They will not know any of the answers! SATS? College? Yea. They are ruining their education and their future, and I refuse to help them do so. Agree 100%.
2006-09-23 09:04:16 · answer #1 · answered by Norah 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Firstly I am not a highschool student, but I am going to defend the internet. I dont think I need to explain the revelance of the internet as a learning tool and a new source which perhaps teachers and the like need to adapt to. Those arguments generally lead nowhere. I will defend the following though: The Internet provides full translated texts at ones fingertips. For example full copies of the Art of War, The I Ching, Tacitus: Germania, Aristophanes collections and other historical texts. This can extend as far as Sassassinid religious transcript (which I found the other day), the last text I could not find at a general public library. Of course the internet is not limited to historical texts, but also useful articles, access to statute and case law. I am sure such useful articles and other types of resources can be found (journals on mathmatics and physics - and other areas I would not touch). I also think that the internet is good for young adults/ children for access of vital information such as the periodic table, astronomy and other basic knowldge. I think that reliance on the internet can be achieved if approached in a correct manner (which I think is the reasoning by this question, the internet is being used for a manner other than a learning tool, but as a quick out). I think if a teenager uses the internet to find one of aristophanes comedies than its perfectly reasonable, if the exercise is a copy paste then it becomes less useful. I think that is what this question is about and on that reasoning I agree. However, it is a useful and valid source in such circumstances as long as its used wisely. I wonder was there this much skeptism on the invention of the calculator. The reasoning is the same and nowdays most equations are done via a calculator and punching in the numbers, I believe this makes the elder mathmaticians queesy. I for one love the calculator. I see the calculator as analgous and if it is bad it seems a inadvoidable direction which might as well be adapted too.
Why deny ourselves a resource simply because it makes us ill.
2006-09-23 23:04:19 · answer #2 · answered by tissapharnes 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I seriously disagree. When my kids were in school they routinely came to me and we discussed their history or science homework in detail. Now, years later, two of them are working on their Doctorates.
Asking questions, learning to ask questions and discussing answers with someone who knows the topic, or who knows how to ask questions, is a legitimate way to learn.
A lot of the kids I taught did not have the advantage of talking on a daily basis to two parents who were both PhD. What they didn't know used to amaze me. Well, many of them had parents who were basically ignorant. And they had no one to ask. And the books were too hard, or too inaccessible. Nowadays, having a resource like Yahoo is great for the kids who learn to weed out the b.s.
I am not opposed to using Wikipedia, either. I have a few areas that I am an "expert" in by academic standards. I often review these areas in Wikipedia, and much more often than not the Wikipedia entry is as good or better than the entries in some of the commonly used encyclopedias, such as Encarta. Once in a while you find something bogus, but it doesn't survive too long with thousands of knowledgeable people checking in. It is a fallacy that books in the library are more authoritative. Lots of them are BS too, you know? You can go to any library and find Erik von Daniken or Ann Coulter! Just because something is in a printed book is in no way a guarantee of its accuracy. Wikipedia is in its infancy, but the idea of a source that can be continously reviewed by anyone who knows about the topic, is basically very analogous to the way all of science works. Sometimes erroneous ideas are expressed, but in the course of time, those which are most accurate come to be recognized and endorsed, while there is always room for alternative opinions - something that often does NOT happen in library collections.
2006-09-23 09:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by matt 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
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2016-11-23 17:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by aziz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"actually thinking, visiting your local library, and opening up a book" died along with the rise of technology. Yea it is sad, but hey there's nothing we can do about it. Why spend the extra time and effort to get a valid source when you can ask it online and get an answer within a couple of minutes. Morally, it is the wrong thing to do but since when do high school students care about morality and choosing the right/wrong thing to do?
2006-09-23 09:08:56 · answer #5 · answered by JIMMY j 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ha, actually, all my teachers since like 1st grade have always told us the Internet is a great source. You just have to be smart enough to know what websites are credible and not.
And wikipedia is pretty strict about their info, they have people making sure that it's not completely wrong and stuff like that.
Anyways...the reason the Internet was created was to share information, so why not use it?
Well, anyways, I'm sorry you hate us high school kids for using the technology available to help us...
By the way I'm 15...just so you know...
2006-09-23 09:13:46 · answer #6 · answered by coreyzard 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The internet is a fabulous source of information. And it's wonderful to see it there. Not everyone is fortunate to have a library nearby, a teacher who cares or a parent that is home to help enhance what was taught that day at school.
But...when do students learn how to read, write or speak anymore? No ahems, anyways, well, well well...
2006-09-23 13:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by Bogie 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Ditto
2006-09-23 09:10:49 · answer #8 · answered by 2cute4u 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's the easy way out I guess. I agree with you!
2006-09-23 09:08:39 · answer #9 · answered by First Lady 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
YES!!! THANK YOU!!!
no more freakin homework assignments!!!
2006-09-23 09:08:53 · answer #10 · answered by fuchi fuchi fea fea 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋