So it's an objective fact there are no objective facts?

If so, why would I listen the bullshit of this bozo?

Yes. The internet is making students stupid.

I had the chance to attend class and watch my 6th grader and his class do an online research project about Canada (of all places).

The goal of the exercise was to gain information about a province - the flag, the capital, some interesting facts, and a few other things about the province.

The teacher recommended all the kids jump onto a research link site called 'Dogpile' and then left the kids to fend for themselves doing google searches on 'Canada' and "province' and thus bringing up hits ranging from agricultural reports from sub-committees

I sat there gob-smacked.

Everything the kids needed to know was contained in two paragraphs in the Encyclopedia Britanica (either print or online version).

But there the sixth graders sat, trying to figure out what the search results meant but having no experiential basis for sorting the priority or how to make sense of the data in front of them.

And the teacher had no idea either.

The first thing my son wants to do with a school project is go to Google. I've made a point now of pulling internet access for school projects UNTIL he's done a rough draft of the project, used aggregated information like an encyclopedia or Facts on File and is going onto Google to look up specific information not available in an encyclopedia ...

like the number of strip bars in Vancouver or the amount of beer consumed in Moose Jaw.

This reminds me of the times that an MSM reporter with criticize blogs. "Blog writers don't have "credentials", "checks and balances", "accountability", etc. , etc. ,etc." But we all know of the recent embarrassing failures of the MSM, and how their anointed position has led them to be sloppy and arrogant and even unethical. And when they criticize the bloggers, after having been scooped by them in several incidences, their criticism becomes simply "circling their wagons" to protect their territory, and even their very jobs. The internet is already responsible for a decline in newspaper circulations, and may put traditional print newspapers out of business for good, eventually. I'm sure anyone reading this, is already aware of all of this.
But I think that the same thing is happening with teachers and the education establishment. The internet may, in the near future, reduce or eliminate the importance of the traditional classroom environment. And this will likewise reduce the importance of the traditional classroom teacher, who, like traditional print journalists, enjoys an exhaled status in society, and a pretty good income to boot. But seeing near identical attacks on the new technology from these similarly threatened intellectual castes. Are the attacks of teachers on the internet any more valid than the attacks of journalist on blogs?

Are the attacks of teachers on the internet any more valid than the attacks of journalist on blogs?

I am not familiar with the attacks from the teachers, so I can't really say, but it does seem that the use of the internet in an adult's news-reading activity seems to be fundamentally different from the process of educating children. It stands to reason that the scope of legitimate criticisms emanating from these two groups would also be somewhat different.

The very idea that education is about gathering a hodge-podge of unranked facts is, of course, ridiculous. Thus the use of Google (or a computer at all, really) in a classroom is ridiculous.

But, being government schools, they will fulfill the purposes for which government schools have always been founded and operated -- (1) to spend tax money, (2) to employ political supporters, (3) to occupy their captives' time in whatever way that promises to minimize the incidents of violent revolt (much like prison).

Learning is an afterthought, and most of the time nothing more than a propaganda tool used to justify the taxation and the employment and stroke the egos of those involved.

How about ending all this touchy feely animal rights crap in schools and get the PETA and their TEACHKIND POPPYCOCK OUT OF SCHOOLS