From Forbes.com's Intelligent Investing column, by Mark Moran, March 22nd, 2010:
The ubiquity and ease of Google searches could make kids' minds go soft without the ability to critique or contextualize the answers....A recent report by the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative at Harvard’s Berkman Center stated that "[m]edia literacy skills overlap with safety skills." In addition to learning how to phrase a search query, students need to learn how to protect themselves online, and how to share their work through wikis, videos, and other interactive media. Without a dedicated guide, they end up, in the words of professor Henry Jenkins, as "feral children of the Internet raised by the Web 2.0 wolves."Mr. Moran, CEO of Dulcinea Media, makes several other points of interest to learners, teachers, and librarians; these are the points most relevant to my current work.
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