With everything at our fingertips now a days I thought it is pretty hard for anyone to be naïve. However, I know that it is just as easy to be naïve and maybe there is more naïve people than I thought, one of them being myself. In Rheingold's book one of the first things he discusses is who needs his book and why. Sure enough I found myself, parents, and extended family filling out the roles of who is in need of it, as I am sure many other people do. Of course I got defensive and thought it is meant to be like this or how else would the book sell, I know enough information I should be fine, right? Wrong. You’re never done learning, and with so much information out there it is important to be able to learn what to get out of it and what to leave behind, how to use it, and filtering out the bad info.
As it has been said in many readings, the education system is slower to teaching about internet and it can’t keep up with knowledge people need. I have learned a lot in this class but I know it’s not everything. I have a professor that said we don’t know what we don’t know. Meaning besides the information that we know, information what we know we don’t know (for example what a teacher will teach in the course) then there is information that we haven’t yet stumbled on to even begin learning. Moving forward it is essential to keep our eyes, ears, and mind open for what new things may come our way, to learn new things and to be cautious and read! Reading terms and acknowledgments is important! I look forward to continue to try and build a better relationship with ‘screens’ and to not move so fast I don’t stop and pay attention to what I am doing online.
