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Are junk information diets killing us? May 16, 2007

Shawn Callahan bemoans the way students use Google and Wikipedia..

Anecdote: Our information diets are killing us
The majority of the students were relying on Google and wikipedia to support their claims and arguments. The only journal articles referred to where the ones I made available in the shared online space.

So why not put all the journal articles on the public web where they can be easily found via google and cited in Wikipedia? Insisting that students learn how to delve around in the hidden internet is just a way of perpetuating that particular academic digital divide.

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