I accept that people misuse it grossly. It was seeing this happen in high school classes (kids handing in essays that were direct copy pastas...) that got me started on formalising how to use it. This built into a realisation of how good it is to teach critical source analysis to teenagers.
I think it's counterproductive to dismiss it, and I think a lot of my opinions come from being an educator. It's going to be used, so rather than try to say "no, don't use it" I think it's better to say "use it in this way". This is why I think it's irresponsible for high school teachers to be pretending it doesn't exist or banning it. Kids don't use dead tree books anymore. They just don't. No amount of wishing they would, or forcing them to, is going to change that. One has to accept that we live under a new paradigm and work with it, not against it.
I actually think our opinions are probably quite close, we just allowed ourselves to get passionate and hyperbolic over the last few days. But that's the internet! ;)
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Date: 7/2/11 01:53 (UTC)I think it's counterproductive to dismiss it, and I think a lot of my opinions come from being an educator. It's going to be used, so rather than try to say "no, don't use it" I think it's better to say "use it in this way". This is why I think it's irresponsible for high school teachers to be pretending it doesn't exist or banning it. Kids don't use dead tree books anymore. They just don't. No amount of wishing they would, or forcing them to, is going to change that. One has to accept that we live under a new paradigm and work with it, not against it.
I actually think our opinions are probably quite close, we just allowed ourselves to get passionate and hyperbolic over the last few days. But that's the internet! ;)