A Google search may or may not lead them to valuable resources online, but many students today clearly don’t know how to differentiate between what’s legitimate and what’s not. Being able to look at a piece of information online and challenge it in order to determine whether or not it is a fact is simply not a skill that many online users have. However, once this process is learned, students can apply it throughout their education - no matter what medium they use for research.
ReadWriteWeb on Information
23 June 2008
20 April 2008
Pre-med students may be victims of a broken system. Medical school admissions should be competitive, but the standards have become so stringent that scholars must nearly abandon their individuality to ceaselessly study. Perhaps, instead of separating the brightest students from the rest, pre-med programs weed out all but the few who are willing to give everything up — hobbies, athletics, even their curiosity — for the sake of a high-paying job as a body mechanic.
Wired on Pre-med Students