Comments on: Dumb Students? Easy Fix: Blame Search Engines, Not Schools

By: Yang

Yang — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:24:21 +0000

Everything has two sides—technology can bring us benefits as well as some shortcomings. But in this particularly case, I cannot find any direct connect between the academic disabilities of students and searching engines. From my point of view, instead of decreasing students’ academic abilities, search engines can help students extend their capacities of finding academic resources with proper usage.

By: Sydney @ Social Dynamics

Sydney @ Social Dynamics — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:30:49 +0000

I want to disagree with the study, but the last time my niece asked for my help for her “research paper” I was horrified at how casual her paper was. It was basically a copy and paste version of Wikipedia, and it broke my heart that apparently it was totally okay to do that, as supposedly suggested by her teacher. Though, I am honestly envious at how much information is at their beck and call, and how easy it is to locate. In my opinion, if used wisely, technology can only make us smarter and savvier.

By: Best Social Media

Best Social Media — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:20:27 +0000

While it is entirely possible that Google has had a negative impact on the researching ability of students. It is a credit to the search engine and not its fault. It just get better at the game they are playing. The issue now is that students might be churning out work that looks totally professional but they might not know they are talking about. It might possible just be a fancy copy and paste job where the marking person won’t know the difference.

I believe the trick now is to teach students to use Google or any other search engine that might replace it in the future to develop a even deeper understanding. Students have to be trained how to use the assets that they have in this day and age.

Gone are the days of researching in the library for information that is just a fw keywords away.

By: plechové střechy

plechové střechy — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:54:06 +0000

Students really need to be taught how to use Google and not only allow them to take info from there.

By: janwong

janwong — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:20:00 +0000

Students today sure has it easy with information on the fingertips. Back then the library was the only source of information we could get out from and I remember spending my weekends in the local library trying to locate a book. Now I can do that in… seconds with Google Books? Makes me wonder – do we still think or have Google took over our thinking abilities?