From today's Inside Higher Ed:
Some professors ban their students from citing Wikipedia
<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki> in papers. Tara
Brabazon of the University of Brighton, bars her students from using
not only Wikipedia, but Google as well, /The Times/
<http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece>
of London reported. Google is "white bread for the mind," Brabazon
said. "Google offers easy answers to difficult questions. But
students do not know how to tell if they come from serious, refereed
work or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial surfing
and fleeting commitments," she said. "Google is filling, but it does
not necessarily offer nutritional content."
Next they'll be requiring students to use quills and ink bottles too. :-)
Chris
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or her views."
- Melissa Lane, in a /Guardian/ obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton
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