Reflecting on November's "Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning"

Alan November’s article is so poignant on all points, that I could easily speak to them all.  I will however stand upon my soapbox regarding his point on truth and the Internet.  The salient point on this topic relates to the responsibility that we have as educators to not simply present our students with any and all information or any form of technology and expect that they have the natural where withal to use it wisely or judiciously.  As teachers we have a responsibility to present information and educational tools to our students along with direction for their application.  We must help our students develop a moral compass or maybe more so, a moral direction finder.  If all we offer our students is information, then they are left on their own to develop their own perspectives or to run into those who would offer them a most dysfunctional or harmful one.  Our students will one day have to make up their own minds about what information is right, wrong, or indifferent.  While they are under our care, we have the responsibility to help them develop the personal standards to make the right decisions later on.