Been thinking lately on where communication and information archiving / resources are heading...
mainly thinking about online information resources as valid or invalid source for knowledge / academic work / accreditation.
Saw a TV Program on a school in Minnesota (US), dealing with education today and their ongoing fight against downloading homework and work essay summaries from the net. as opposed to gathering the information and writing it on your own.
also they find them self with the need to "fight" a growing trend of not only not reading a book entirely and renting (downloading :)) - but actually downloading short summarized tidbits of the actual books they are required to read.
How should educators / accreditations and other personnel in this field should handle the internet? - not even raising the fact that some people draw their entire knowledge from Wikipedia or the likes of it...
is it official enough? is it reliable enough? - is it unbiased enough to become a valid source? ( even with the new implementations they recently got in wikipedia...)
while writing these words - I think more and more on Online identities and their ongoing management... FaceBook / MySpace / Linkedin / Forums / etc. etc. - but that is another matter ( another post maybe? ).
what do you think? - are we heading to knowledge chaos? / are we already there ? / will it ever "get there"?
I tend to ponder on this issue more and more - the more I refer to online resources for almost any aspect of my life - personal and professional wise.
how does one manage the information? - or better yet - handle the Disinformation the World Wide Web introduces to us?...
no idea... really... just thoughts...
Yours
Eyal
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