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  #1 Felipe Urdaneta on 30 Mar 12

   

  I read this reference today and I must say I agree with only about 20% of what the authors state:
  1.a In terms of education not only children need to be careful with Internet and other reading sources, we as adults also need to be careful as well. According to the reference "youth's high degree of immersion, coupled with areas of na ̈ıvete ́, differences in cognitive development, and usage of digital media elevate the importance of understanding credibility within this user population. Just Google recent academic misconduct scandals due to research fraud in Medicine. In my specialty there are two huge cases that are still generating noise and will continue to do so for quite a while.
  1.b I disagree that all printed material is trustworthy but Internet material is of dubious nature.
  Indeed source information is sometimes unavailable, masked, or entirely missing from a Web site, chat group, blog, wiki, etc. In other cases, source information is provided, but it is hard to interpret, such as when information is coproduced; re-purposed from one site, channel, or application to another; or when information aggregators display information from multiple sources in a centralized location that may itself be perceived as the source.I agree that one problem with sites such as Wikipedia is the fact that no authors or sources are listed, but are you telling that everything in books is the truth? I recommend a great vacation book called "Lies my teacher told me" by James Loewen; it is a summary of stories that pass from generation to generation, from textbook to textbook but are 100% false and 0 % fact. I bet everyone remembers the story that Christopher Columbus told Queen Isabel from Spain that he thought the earth was flat... DYK this (pardon my french is B.S?!) This story like many others was originated in a novel written in the 1800's.... and ever since it appears in all history textbooks! RU guys telling me this is the only legend that books have turned into reality? I do not want to digress but the book I mentioned is 376 pages long. There reference states "digital media are challenging our fundamental ideas about learning and education is prevalent among teachers and librarians" but I already mentioned that not all information in books is accurate so I remain skeptical of all information whether it comes in printed form or in digital form.
  1.cMore and more organizations are migrating to the Web, and making information accessible exclusively via digital means
  1.c Digital media has provided access to an unprecedented amount of information available for public consumption. The beauty and major challenge is the fact that e-media has the ultimate duality of being a great way to spread truth and be an excellent collaboration media with unprecedented reach, but it can be a source for things to go wrong "in a New York minute" and turn into one of those "Viral" things we sometimes read about. If a local paper prints something its circulation is limited to a relative small population, on the other hand if one looks at the number of followers in social media websites of certain popular characters, there is a new meaning for putting your foot in your mouth. *Funny cartoon
  
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  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I read this reference today and I must say I agree with only about 20% of what the authors state: <br /> 1.a In terms of education not only children need to be careful with Internet and other reading sources, we as adults also need to be careful as well. According to the reference "youth's high degree of immersion, coupled with areas of na ̈ıvete ́, differences in cognitive development, and usage of digital media elevate the importance of understanding credibility within this user population. Just Google recent academic misconduct scandals due to research fraud in Medicine. In my specialty there are two huge cases that are still generating noise and will continue to do so for quite a while. <br /> 1.b I disagree that all printed material is trustworthy but Internet material is of dubious nature. <br /> Indeed source information is sometimes unavailable, masked, or entirely missing from a Web site, chat group, blog, wiki, etc. In other cases, source information is provided, but it is hard to interpret, such as when information is coproduced; re-purposed from one site, channel, or application to another; or when information aggregators display information from multiple sources in a centralized location that may itself be perceived as the source.I agree that one problem with sites such as Wikipedia is the fact that no authors or sources are listed, but are you telling that everything in books is the truth? I recommend a great vacation book called "Lies my teacher told me" by James Loewen; it is a summary of stories that pass from generation to generation, from textbook to textbook but are 100% false and 0 % fact. I bet everyone remembers the story that Christopher Columbus told Queen Isabel from Spain that he thought the earth was flat... DYK this (pardon my french is B.S?!) This story like many others was originated in a novel written in the 1800's.... and ever since it appears in all history textbooks! RU guys telling me this is the only legend that books have turned into reality? I do not want to digress but the book I mentioned is 376 pages long. There reference states "digital media are challenging our fundamental ideas about learning and education is prevalent among teachers and librarians" but I already mentioned that not all information in books is accurate so I remain skeptical of all information whether it comes in printed form or in digital form. <br /> 1.cMore and more organizations are migrating to the Web, and making information accessible exclusively via digital means <br /> 1.c Digital media has provided access to an unprecedented amount of information available for public consumption. The beauty and major challenge is the fact that e-media has the ultimate duality of being a great way to spread truth and be an excellent collaboration media with unprecedented reach, but it can be a source for things to go wrong "in a New York minute" and turn into one of those "Viral" things we sometimes read about. If a local paper prints something its circulation is limited to a relative small population, on the other hand if one looks at the number of followers in social media websites of certain popular characters, there is a new meaning for putting your foot in your mouth. *Funny cartoon <br /> <br /> F. Urdaneta</div>

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