In one of our Tech in Ed classes we looked up "fake" websites, and as I write this blog entry I smirk at the idea that people have the naivete's to believe everything they read on the Internet. Yet, just a couple of weeks ago I had procrastinated on an essay for my Cultural Anthropology class. The paper was about the Samoan people and their culture and as I Googled and researched for this paper I found a variety of websites that were extremely questionable in the area of reliability.
In my lifetime there has been a large shift in the trustworthiness of the the Internet. When I was younger (elementary school) the Internet was an endless place filled with untouchable knowledge to be grasped by those that surfed its endless websites. And though today the Internet is a place still filled with millions of resources from A to Z there is a stronger sense of carefulness and discernment when entering and looking at any website. So when on the Internet, one must remember to be smart and stay safe, though it has many good uses the Internet holds some danger as well.
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