People love 'talking.' Blogs are like a grapevine, that can have both rumor and fact, but there is the opportunity to verify, or dismiss information to a far greater degree, with a vast number of parallel, and alternative sources. There is both accurate, and misleading information on the net.
The trick can be knowing the difference. In a traditional grapevine, we generally only hear the last link. With blogs and other similar tools that are being developed, we have a greater ability to see the whole vine. We can learn which information is likely to be accurate(as far as we know) Data,scientific principles, mathematics, logic,and that which must be confirmed, or verified, such as political, a...

People love 'talking.' Blogs are like a grapevine, that can have both rumor and fact, but there is the opportunity to verify, or dismiss information to a far greater degree, with a vast number of parallel, and alternative sources. There is both accurate, and misleading information on the net.
The trick can be knowing the difference. In a traditional grapevine, we generally only hear the last link. With blogs and other similar tools that are being developed, we have a greater ability to see the whole vine. We can learn which information is likely to be accurate(as far as we know) Data,scientific principles, mathematics, logic,and that which must be confirmed, or verified, such as political, and business news. In the middle are any number of things that must betaken on a case by case basis. Always remembering that the way the internet is changing the way we think and see things, that some of the things that have been accepted traditionally, will be seen in a new light, or qualified with newly revealed information. The way the internet has given children a means to learn for themselves, means a teacher can be learning as much as those being taught.