Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Kids need to be taught how to use search engines

Here's an interesting article in November's Wired Magazine by Clive Thompson about how kids do not know how to distinguish what sites are decent and trustworthy in the results of search engines. Apparently kids and young adults are putting way too much trust in the sites that Google ranks in the top of research topics without using critical thinking skills to judge the information in which they are presented. ...Check out the article here

1 comment:

  1. Why is Google serving untrustworthy sites in the first place? LOL. I guess this still speaks about the difficulty Google still has in identifying sites that should have better rankings due to trust.

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