Control-F and Building Resilient Information Networks

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Control-F and Building Resilient Information Networks
Mike Caulfield, Hapgood, 2020/01/27
Mike Caulfield makes the vary salient point that teaching students about ctl-F (ie., the 'Find' command in a web browser) helps them be more digitally literate, because it helps them fact-check more efficiently. That's probably true, and a good point. But what I like about ctl-F is even a bit more subversive. When we start using ctl-F we break out of the mindset that treats content as linear, where we have to start at the beginning and work our way to the end. More...