I cant imagine this world without our advances and technology that it presents. The fast impact that technology brings is so fast that at times I wonder what’s next for the future?
Through the internet people can find almost anything they want or need. Being able to get answers faster for an immediate simple question, or even trying to find out a big literary work from an major author, the internet offers almost endless information. Yes at times its almost risky that your trusting the internet where almost anyone can put any information on there, so taking the chance of relying on information on the internet could be a risk, its also a talent that researches have to learn onto how to trust and research the right information from the right websites. Also being able to distinguish what is false and correct is also a learned ability that one over time becomes more familiar with and obtains a better skill at researching through the internet.
Tina’s faith that people acquire skill at researching through the internet would seem to be misplaced if you go by much of the academic literature out there. But that literature arguably looks only at snapshots of student achievement over a very short period of time (undergraduate classes or careers). Do graduate students eventually acquire these skills in order to do effective research? Does the public at large acquire these skills in order to evade the risks of using unreliable information. At what rate?