Why Textbooks And Education Are To Blame For Fake News
The way we teach it at Seton Hill, as a process that leads to a researched term paper, I think it’s safe to add freshman comp to the good list.
We continue to operate on the basis that knowledge is stored in repositories, usually a book or an teacher. This dependence on textbooks has distorted education, and made it vulnerable to indoctrination. But, above all, textbooks make us dependent on a specific source of information, preventing us from developing our own criteria. The only places where people are taught how to search for information are on Information Sciences and Journalism courses. In an age when we are inundated with information, students more than ever need those search skills. […] Education, from primary school on, should be about developing the skills to search for and qualify information online. Students have to be taught that the truth is not to be found in the pages of this or that book, but instead is out there, and can be found if we take the time and use the necessary skills.
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Dear Dennis, thank you for this blog post. I would like to add a few things about this blog post that I have reached as a result of the search.It is possible to say that the most distinctive features of this generation, which are described as Google's belt, distinguish the individual from other generations is the information search strategies and the informational use. With the ever-increasing enrichment of digital information resources available on the Internet, libraries that are considered as physical places where large book collections are located lose their former significance and turn their backs on these environments in the process of information search of today's individuals. Today, the individuals, especially young people and children; search engines, social network sites, web updates etc. that respond quickly to these needs to meet your information needs. they have begun to prefer dynamic and personalizable information sources.