Piccolo -- You have a nice soothing voice. The DFFT logo appeared the entire length of the video.
There are so many unknowns with Initiative 26. I firmly believe it is against the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In regard to the review of the article it seems as if Mr. Thompson was retreading an article by a similar name that came out in 2007.
If memory serves, search engines (like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, etc.) use the web crawlers that search out certain words and/or phrases or other set criteria. The page rankings may be a result of paid advertising or other media which brings it to the forefront. Was it Yahoo who used the fee paid search returns? The web searches are able to pull all the content including news and academia sources. Perhaps the Illinois librarian is a little behind the curve or Mr. Thompson is using outdated information.
It was my experience that core curriculum college classes taught students to question the validity of the search engine's returned results as well as appropriate search techniques. My youngest child, who is enrolled in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) class, in a rural Mississippi high school, has been taught not to base research on Wiki, and to question web page content looking at authors and advertisers. Since it is such a small school it would be extremely novel if other schools were not falling the same principals.
The children's BS meters will improve as they mature. Much like my five-year old granddaughter is no longer fooled by the nose trick that alarmed her at age three. She knows Nana really isn't holding her nose in hand.
Yes, there are those that forgot to stand in the maturity line (or the common sense, sympathetic, or any other line which touches humanity); however, that is a side effect of being human.
Perhaps a lot of what we are seeing right now stems from the fact that many of us who are so active online right now did not grow up with internet. If I wanted to know anything, there was only the encyclopedia and dictionary...one authoritative source as it were. Now we're living in a world where we can call up sources at light speed but many of us can't discern fact from fiction. I suspect that our skills will improve as time goes by but we must remain vigilant.
Piccolo -- You have a nice soothing voice. The DFFT logo appeared the entire length of the video.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many unknowns with Initiative 26. I firmly believe it is against the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In regard to the review of the article it seems as if Mr. Thompson was retreading an article by a similar name that came out in 2007.
If memory serves, search engines (like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, etc.) use the web crawlers that search out certain words and/or phrases or other set criteria. The page rankings may be a result of paid advertising or other media which brings it to the forefront. Was it Yahoo who used the fee paid search returns? The web searches are able to pull all the content including news and academia sources. Perhaps the Illinois librarian is a little behind the curve or Mr. Thompson is using outdated information.
It was my experience that core curriculum college classes taught students to question the validity of the search engine's returned results as well as appropriate search techniques. My youngest child, who is enrolled in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) class, in a rural Mississippi high school, has been taught not to base research on Wiki, and to question web page content looking at authors and advertisers. Since it is such a small school it would be extremely novel if other schools were not falling the same principals.
The children's BS meters will improve as they mature. Much like my five-year old granddaughter is no longer fooled by the nose trick that alarmed her at age three. She knows Nana really isn't holding her nose in hand.
Yes, there are those that forgot to stand in the maturity line (or the common sense, sympathetic, or any other line which touches humanity); however, that is a side effect of being human.
Perhaps a lot of what we are seeing right now stems from the fact that many of us who are so active online right now did not grow up with internet. If I wanted to know anything, there was only the encyclopedia and dictionary...one authoritative source as it were. Now we're living in a world where we can call up sources at light speed but many of us can't discern fact from fiction. I suspect that our skills will improve as time goes by but we must remain vigilant.
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