After watching the video showing other students answering the question we were asked to answer I didn't feel so bad. Seeing a bunch of Harvard grads get the same questions wrong I did showed me that it's hard to get people to give up what they believe to be true their entire life, even if their beliefs are flat out wrong.
I think Web 2.0 can help people retain the correct information by giving them better access to experts and teaching tools. Looking at the models the teacher was working with and hearing her explanation does not seem to be as effective a teaching tool as a NASA produced video. If students had questions they could email actual astronomers to have it explained a different way. Sometimes hearing a different person explain the same thing is all it takes to make it sink in.
However, many people believe the first thing they read on the internet and hold it as gospel, so the teacher would still have to teach students to verify their information. I was working on a project about ancient India with my students last week and one student said that the Indians were the first to invent flying machines. After looking at his source, he was reading a blog by a UFO-ologist who was arguing that ancient aliens had visited India and left one of their UFOs behind.
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