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Feel like we've all memory-holed the era where blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were considered the equivalent of slop

Erin Kissane

@kissane.myatproto.social

9 Sept

Still a cornerstone of middle school media literacy, it turns out.

Erin Kissane

@kissane.myatproto.social

9 Sept

Clarification: Wikipedia is banned, blogs are bad, WebMD is good, but main guidance is to trust only .gov domains. Which…

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

that. seems exactly backwards? I mean, "trust .gov domains" was good advice until relatively recently, but there are a *lot* of blogs I'd trust more than webmd (you do have to check them on an individual basis though).

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Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

9 Sept

I was in elementary school when I discovered you could "cheat" on assignments by finding the sources wikipedia cited and using those. ...they should probably actually talk about wikipedia as a starting point to find sources. It's good for that.

P(aul) Frazee

@pfrazee.com

9 Sept

Yeah that's what Erin is getting at

Dork Knight Forever

@dorkknightrises.bsky.social

9 Sept

That's literally what we teach kids what are you talking about

Robert Stribley

@stribs.bsky.social

9 Sept

The problem with blogs tho is they run the gamut from well-researched to absolute festering dumpster fires. Tho, yes, now we have that issue creeping into .govs. 😞