http://www.thethinkingstick.com/the-half-life-of-knowledge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-half-life-of-knowledge Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/the-half-life-of-knowledge/#comment-1680 Derek Halverson Sun, 06 May 2007 04:57:36 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=486#comment-1680 Unfortunately, I think a few people have been duped here... The Onion is a well know satirical/parody news site. Although its' tagline is "America's Finest News Source", it doesn't necessarily make it true. I don't really know if the link by Tim and discussion by you was in fact meant to be a conversation on the state of statistics and baseball or a funny link, but reading the story and a few other "headlines" should confirm to any reader the site is meant as parody. (Headlines this week: "Thirsty Mayor Drinks Town's Entire Water Supply", "Prince William Fells Prince Willem-Alexander Of The Netherlands In Crucial Joust" and a great one for all bloggers out there "Extra-Slanty Italics Introduced For Extremely Important Words") It just proves that if adult consumers of the internet can be duped by a well written/ produced site, our students will surely need help in developing internet literacy skills in order to be able to interpret fact from fiction. Unfortunately, I think a few people have been duped here… The Onion is a well know satirical/parody news site. Although its’ tagline is “America’s Finest News Source”, it doesn’t necessarily make it true. I don’t really know if the link by Tim and discussion by you was in fact meant to be a conversation on the state of statistics and baseball or a funny link, but reading the story and a few other “headlines” should confirm to any reader the site is meant as parody. (Headlines this week: “Thirsty Mayor Drinks Town’s Entire Water Supply”, “Prince William Fells Prince Willem-Alexander Of The Netherlands In Crucial Joust” and a great one for all bloggers out there “Extra-Slanty Italics Introduced For Extremely Important Words”) It just proves that if adult consumers of the internet can be duped by a well written/ produced site, our students will surely need help in developing internet literacy skills in order to be able to interpret fact from fiction.

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