When I initially heard of DHMO I had no idea what it was, I had never even heard of it before. Once I started reading on it I slowly started to realize that this was something serious, it wasn't some chemical that was just something minor. DHMO is a chemical that has many effects, both on the human body and on our planet. It causes global warming, acid rain, soil erosion, hurricanes, tsunamis, and much more. Not only does it have horrible affects on the planer, but deadly affects on the human body, such as cancer, tumors and many other diseases. My feelings towrds, DHMO was that it should be used very carfully or not even at all. Then when I foud out the what DHMO was simply water I was stunned, because hadnt read anything on that. And then thats were I figured out what DHMO had to do with the freeom of water.
After my experiance on reserching DHMO and reading false information, that made me realize that I shouldn't just check one website for a piece of information. I need to go to multiple sites to find out what that topic really is. Because if I have no knowledge on a topic and I go and just use one resource, the chances of me reading the wrong information is pretty high. So if I had done a report on what DHMO was, it would have been totally wrong. Me doing this assignment has changed my thinking on digital information. I now no the importance of checking multiple sites to find my information.
Well said, Anthony. I really didn't mean to make anyone feel stupid or anything, but to help everyone learn a valuable lesson. Tomorrow we will talk about how to identify accurate information online. It's not easy, but it's also not impossible. This exercise was meant to do just what it did: help you all see the need to be accurate and careful in your online research!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great blog, I too had no idea what DHMO was but after some research i have some idea. Keep blogging.
ReplyDeleteI agree that digital information can be misleading. The internet is a huge place and there is a lot of false information out there. It is important to check if the site is reliable and safe to use.
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