EDUC 30 Chapter Notes - Chapter article : Microsoft Live Labs, Information Explosion, Visual Search
Document Summary
1: literacy and critical thinking in the digital age. Goal across time of collecting info + making it available to public: provide people w/ quality sources they need to understand world + reflect carefully on existing beliefs and opinions. Critical thinking the ultimate goal of all education. Dr. richard paul of center for critical thinking emphasizes that this model of thinking can be applied universally to students and they can apply it to everything. Need to have minds that are trained in healthy, productive skepticism to relate/evaluate data and sources. So many sources out there thanks to the internet and need to figure out which ones are credible and complete to use information well. Just + sustainable global society built not on fact-finding but on research and development skills. Majority of people under 25 get their news from online. Some of the info might not be reliable + deliberately misleading.
