Monday, September 24, 2007

What websites do we know we can trust?

" Shh! I'm Googling My Facts."I read an article on Google facts by David Warlick on two cents worth. It was about the websites displayed on Google aren't always the most trust worthy. The story in the article is a bout a kid who is looking for facts about 9/11 on Google. He came about a conspiracy theory website believing that the World Trade Centers were bombed not hit by two planes. This shows that the Internet is not the best place for the best facts and that it needs to be evaluated by the students. It is the number one complaint in the school. David Warlick said, " We have to practice what we preach, and we have to preach it out loud!" We should continue to use textbooks and reference books and databases but also we need to use evaluated and processed learning websites.



I believe this is important to the world because we all use the Internet on a daily basis at least I do. We use the Internet to look at sports and new technology. We use it for our leisure and for school work. How do we know what is wrong and what is right in the Internet when it is growing every hour? How would someone evaluate and process every website? Google has helpful information and websites but it doesn't have enough time to evaluate the information it collects or to tell the makers of the website that they are wrong especially when everyone has an opinion. They can't just deny the maker into the search engine just because they do not believe what the creator believes. I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion and can't be subjected to exclusion just because someone else doesn't believe the same thing. Can someone like the Google owners filter out something just because they don't believe that it is the truth? Would you bash someone elses beliefs and try and force yours upon them?

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