... of students everywhere, and make quality information equally accessible to students in both rural and urban settings". We are going to look at three areas relating to gathering of information on the internet and the implications on teaching and learning for now and in the future. These are: research skills, discernment of information, and plagiarism. The information we can gather on the net is growing at an exponential rate. The quality of the information that is available on the Web is the question we must consider. In the past because of the cost and time involved in creating books publishers and editors were perhaps more critical. Editors and publishers were very discerning about the information they published. Today however, when publishing a web page on the net, as Paris (2002) noted, there is no difference between a major corporation and a school child. The implications for educators both now and in ...

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