Finding Curriculum Resources...The HARD WAY...

This week's assignment-use the web to find resources for the class. That, in itself, is easy. You can pretty much type in anything, and you'll get what you're looking for. You may have to do a little bit of searching around, but you should be able to get what you want.

For me, though, that wasn't the hard part. The hard part was finding an authentic source to validate using this. I'll tell you what--one thing that's changed since I was in college is the huge number of online sites, blogs, etc. that have the same information that articles might have. In other words, man, it took FOREVER to narrow down some searches, and in some engines, I was nowhere near what I was looking for. I'm all in favor of using all of this technology, but it scares me just a tad to think that anyone could access this blog and CITE it!!! I think that's a careful line to walk; I wouldn't want to have my citations end up being some 13 year old's mySpace blog for support.

No matter how much information is out there, we still have to be careful about what information that we use. Even Wikipedia isn't the most trusted source; don't tell that to the students, though. They find it very easy to get the information that they need, without the thought of whether or not it's accurate.

So what am I rambling about? No matter how easy teachnology has made life, we still need to take the time to ensure that what we use is accurate and faithful to the source. If not, I shudder to think of future term papers peppered with LOL and BFF, with citations to back it up...