The use of the internet within 21st Century education requires a significant amount of good judgment of its users. When using the internet as a resource, students will have to be able to decipher between facts and opinions and learn to seek out reliable sources. We, as educators, will never be able to provide the students with an all-inclusive list of sites and sources that have been deemed as unreliable; therefore we must teach the students how to seek out and evaluate sites, themselves. Just as we did in last week’s assignment, ask the students to compile of list of characteristics of a quality site and reliable source (or better yet, ask them to create a site that includes those listed features).
Students must also know and adhere to a code of ethics when using the internet as a resource. Though the internet may seem to be a grand collection of ideas and point-of-views for anyone’s viewing and learning purposes, we must teach students to respect the intellectual property of those writers. This can be done by requiring the students to formulate and state their personal beliefs on a topic first and then resorting to the internet to find information to support their views. Too often, the internet is used as a replacement tool of students’ thinking rather than a supplemental tool.
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