Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Is there a simple answer?

With all of the information available for everyone to look at on the internet. Internet safety should be a concern for everyone involved in a school system. Many students who explore the internet really don't take into an account that whatever site they are conducting research for must be a credible website. Credible websites are .gov,.edu,.mil, or journals from databases are usually good websites that are creditable. Nowadays I don't believe that students really believe that sites like wikipedia are not credible sources even though they have a lot of information. In a sense, it really pains me that students really don't care if a website is credible or not which tells me that a lot of students really don't care about their education. My question is, What should we do about that as teachers? What can we do to make students care about their education instead of them not caring and complete an assignment just because they have to? Is there a simple answer to this? Unfortunately no, so obviously there is not quick fix. When the students come back from summer break, I believe that we as educators have to drill into these students head that internet safety and research does matter and that you have to take it seriously. if we don't take it seriously then they won't, so it's up to us to keep pushing them to have very high standards when it comes to research.

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