Saturday, September 8, 2012
2) More Detail?
When I have done research projects in the past, whether it be for English, history, or other subjects, most of my information comes from the internet. I am sure a lot of students can agree with this. As a technology based society, we as a culture have grown up with the internet. When my mom was going through college, she never had access to the internet. It hadn't been created yet. All of the research she did was from books. This has given us an advantage and a disadvantage. I feel like students today rely way too much on the internet and less on books. The searches become repetitive and boring. After reading chapter six, my future internet research will change dramatically. I never knew there were so many databases full of information just waiting to be read. The term "deep web" threw me through a loop because I never knew how much more there truly was. Different sites are aimed for different topics. For example, USA.gov is centered towards U.S. government websites whereas NewsVoyager.com is aimed towards newspapers. With all these new search sites, my research will feel fresh and new without the constant repeating of old sites. There is so much more out there than meets the eye and I can't wait to discover more.
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I agree, we are completely consumed with the internet. I mean look at us, taking online courses and all that cool stuff. Haha, but you are right, the deep web caught my eye too. We can get more details than on a basic google search engine!?! YES! I wish I would have known about these earlier in school. I cant imagine how much more information I could have had for projects and papers. I think chapter 6 really has a lot of useful tips, tools, and internet sites to use. I am planning on using some books for research as well, but it seems easier when the internet is at our fingertips. Thanks for the great post, I dont know how our parents did it when they were in school. It is mind boggling to think about what things would be like today if we didnt have the internet, or smartphones, or anything of our technological age.
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ReplyDeleteI was in the same boat as your mother. Old enough to remember when there was no internet. I was a bad student when I was younger. I wanted to play instead of study. Back then, studying meant the library and reading through 10 pages of unimportant stuff to get to the stuff I really wanted. What a drag. Now, if I want something specific, I can go right to it within minutes. Case in point, my mom just died and going through her stuff we found all kinds of items we were not sure if they had any value like coins and plates and such. Within 2-3 minutes, the web provided all we needed to know of their base value. The other night at dinner, we had a question come up "why does cutting onions make you cry". One of my sons found the answer in 2 minutes on his smartphone and BAM, we had our answer moved on to the next topic. I love that stuff. BTW, you cry because when you cut an onion, the chemaical reaction from mixing the compounds inside the cell membranes creates sulfuric acid (or soemthing like that). Pretty cool huh? I hope your mother has found the internet to be as awesome as I have. However, there are still some very bad things out there too. That's why we have filters on our systems.
Your generation will surely be the smartest ever because of the access you have to instant answers. Good luck out there!
I remember the time when internet was something you had to disconnect your phone and connect the internet cable and then had to wait FOREVER for it to dial up and browsing was so slow we didn't bother going on the internet because it was so much trouble. When we studied, it was only with the books we had and if it was serious studying, to the library we went. When in school we actually had to start doing homework through internet, my mom would say, well at your age your sisters didn't have to use internet for homework so I don't think you need to. She doesn't say that anymore because everything seems to be on the internet. Hopefully they don't start closing down libraries because of the new e-books.
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