Changing Times

I scarcely remember the day that I had to go to the library and had to dig through the filed cards so I could find a research book for school. Today someone it is possible that someone could never leave the comfort of their home and computer and find just about any information they needed to know off the internet. This age is turning research into a few minutes of browsing through Google to see what came up for the topic you typed in. Teachers are having to put boundaries on what websites are allowed for research and what are not because just about anything from anyone can be published and put on the internet without inspection. According to Derek E. Baird and Mercedes Fisher who wrote “Neomillennial User Experience Design Strategies: Utilizing Social Networking Media to Support “Always On” Learning Styles” state that in the “1990’s, as the digital age began to bloom, teachers were among the first to embrace the Internet and other first generation digital technologies, finding creative and innovative ways to integrate these digital technologies in their classrooms”. It is interesting to me because a lot of teachers now want you to have at least half your sources from hard books from the library and limit your sources on the internet. I think this just shows the vulnerability that the internet has now that didn’t use to be there fifteen years ago when it was just getting started. The internet however, has enhanced the learning of most students as it enables them to search a vast amount of research in a limited amount of time.