1) As teachers prepare lessons, they must consider the
auditory, kinesthetic, and visual learners. The web provides quick access to
materials that can be displayed during classroom instruction. Using google, one
can immediately switch between search types. Image searches, text searches,
video searches, and map searches produce vastly different results that are all
useful in the classroom. However, just like when we search for research information, we must be careful in every search we conduct.
2) Textbooks and Wikipedia are both written by human beings
who are innately interested in the topic upon which they are writing.
Therefore, the authors will have a bias that comes across in their writing.
Using Wikipedia, it is easier to submit error reports to the
publishers/monitors of the site. Additionally, there is more volume coming
through Wikipedia’s audience than through a textbook’s audience; therefore,
Wikipedia has millions of editors (all double checking one another) reviewing
the material daily where a textbook only has a handful of editors.
3) Most students rely on Wikipedia as their main source of
information as it is readily available. I normally use Wikipedia, but I would
never cite it as a source. Wikipedia has become incredibly reliable as it has
matured throughout its existence, and I feel completely confident employing it
as a means for me to learn.
The dangers of searching on google - when we search, we must carefully consider what we search for, otherwise, we may come up with results like these:
Searching "Saw" Produces these Results
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