Children turn to the net.

I found an interesting post by Erica, which is true  the more we think about children do go to the interent more than books to do their homework, why? because it is easier, its faster and you don’t have to shift through pages and pages of books to find a small paragraph, however most people see it as the lazy way but as Erica points out this form of literacy requires new skills, it teaches to recognise bias, reliability and validity of sources all important skills which children will take with them when they leave school. Teaching children to have a critical eye and helping them to understand what is content and what is advertisment is so important. Erica points out quite an interesting stastic that being that a recent study of sources used in a random collection of 500 assignments found 27% were considered realiable sources. People are complaining that websites aren’t realiable that isn’t true we have a wealth out there avaliable at a click, the trick is recognising what is relaible and what isn’t and teaching this to children. Childen have the opportunity to cross check information this develops their research skills. It is all about moderation we need to teach children that the interent does not replace books they rather compliment eachother and they need to be taught properly.