On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Dave Prentice <prentice@instruction.com>wrote:
> This is so common in schools nowadays! Every student thinks that his/her
> opinion is so important that it must voiced immediately, whether or not it
> has anything to do with the subject and whether or not the teacher is
> speaking.
> Dave P.
>
> That's rich. I'm not being mean, but I remember when I was in school 80s
90s, the big teacher complaint was lack of student participation. Of course
my schools had less than 15 kids per class on average.
>
>
> On 4/11/2011 10:36 AM, Jeremy wrote:
>
>> On 4/11/2011 12:03 AM, Jerry Wilborn wrote:
>>
>>> > And there is the great fallacy of the internet. Every opinion must
>>> be voiced.
>>>
>>> Ahh, irony.
>>>
>>> Jerry Wilborn
>>> jerrywilborn@gmail.com <mailto:jerrywilborn@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I realize the irony in having made that statement... :P I made it
>> because I'm honestly concerned about what affect internet has had on the
>> modern world. Tired, old, discredit crackpot theories can now be
>> resurrected and gain a new following on the Internet. New crackpot bunkum
>> spreads like wildfire and maintains a following despite being discredited
>> (ala the 2012 doomsday). It is now easier to scam people or commit fraud
>> selling bunk junk. The level of narcissism on the web is seemingly growing
>> now that anyone can jabber away*. The signal to noise ratio obviously gets
>> worse and worse because of the amount of bad/incorrect information. The
>> level of voluntary sharing that is becoming the norm seems to cheapen the
>> concept of privacy.
>>
>> Yeah, the internet is probably the greatest communications and information
>> retrieval tool to have been built, but I'm concerned that having given
>> "everyone a voice" may have had deleterious effects on that tool.
>>
>> Or maybe I'm wrong... Or maybe no one cares. Ehh.
>>
>> J
>>
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