Post #5

I think that since the birth of the internet, the way we study and learn has gone to a different level than ever before. It's so easy to go to google.com and just type anything in the search engine and find an answer. I think that the internet is a fantastic resource and i'm glad that I didn't have to be a student in the 60s when there was no such thing as a search engine. However, it can be misleading at times. It's hard to know when information is honest and when it's false; of this is someone's opinion or the real facts...that's why I think it's useful when you're trying to do a quick search of something. But for a research paper, I think you have to go deeper than just the internet and you actually have to pick up a book and read.

I think that other ways you may use the web for student learning are the help sites. There are a lot of help sites for any subject you can think of. When I was doing research for my final project, I stumbled upon so many different help sites. There were English help sites, math help sites...anything you could think of. They even had science fair ideas that were already thought out for you. When I did my science fair project, I had to come up with the idea on my own! Not anymore...

I think that if I teach Creative Writing, then most likely it will be for high school students. The problem that I would have for supervising their work is plagiarism. Plagiarism is a really big deal since the internet came out. Students can just copy and paste or even download a whole paper right off the internet and not put in any work. I think sites such as turnitin.com has helped alot when it comes to this, but that still would be a big problem.