How do you think websites and the Internet will change critical thinking and reasoning and problem solving?
The information now available on the internet, like traditional information sources, is useful to us only to the extent that we can accurately assess and apply it. In other words, the internet information is not good in itself. We will not improve our thinking or our knowledge merely because we have more information available to us. In fact, people unskilled at thinking can easily be manipulated through (what is often false or misleading) information that is pre-digested and made available on the internet. To effectively use any information we must utilize the resources of critical thinking. We need to determine the accuracy, relevance, and significance of information. The problem we now face is that students often believe whatever they read on the internet. They uncritically consider it a source of reliable information. This is true because they don’t have the intellectual tools to differentiate between credible and incredible information and claims. 10) How do we teach students to th
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