Deep Thinking and Deep Reading

The Educational Journal of Technology wrote an article entitled "Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz, and Info-Glimmer" Its author Elegies Guttenberg Birkets, states that with the vast information available on the internet in schools, students and teachers need to really examine closely what is fact or fiction.
To achieve the truth regquires deep reading and deep thinking. They are dule processors which inform such a search and lead us toward insight and illumination. He describes the web as a "pot luck supper" where we all want to feast but even though everything looks good its not. Good teachers need to help children make the right choices from the supper. This may take several hours of navigation and "gorging" will occur, but with time students will make the correct choices on their own.
Deep reading which begins with quality stories being read tor inspire deep thought in children carries on to the internet by having children being able to make contact with the text or may be a reflection aimed at resolving some unanswered question or dllemma. Its using essential questions to find the answer. Deep reading in the past meant reading lots of material and collecting. Now with the help of teachers, students can use search engines that are constant flowing source of information that is available at the touch of a button.
The information necessary to students can be obtained through the following categories.
ZINES or magazine sites such as NETSURFDIGEST and http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html are great sites.

The ListServ on a Special Interes serves as source by setting up a flow of messages on a particular topic interest. The sites such as Deja News and Listz are useful sites.

The customized E-Mail News Digest such as the New York Times allow you to request periodic digest or topics of interest. The set back with these sources is that you have to subscribe or pay a fee to use their information.

The Customized Info-Rich Screen Saver includes products like Pointcast to deliver headline news and updates to desktops as they happen. There is a constant stream which is free and customizable.

The Intelligent Vigilant Search Engine is available through IBM with a subscription and a monthly fee. It sends you two news deliveries a day on business news.

Now that we have great resources to start our knowledge quest we need to take our deep thinking process and put it to work. We need to read our way into deep thinking. This is done when we collect all our dat and start to sort, sift, select, ingest and then diget the most important parcels and morsels. We look for patterns, and conections taking out of the iformation what is relevant to our subjects and using prior knowledge to build onto new perceptions. Many of us use a process of incubaton where we are looking for information on a new idea and we keep churning in our minds all the material we gathered and suddenly we have an unconscious AHA that say I know what to do with the new information that is relevant to my problem or question.
The incubation of of new materials lead to us thinking our way into deep meaning. A person synthesizes our information by a conscious act of rearranging, combining, blending and harmonizing our information pieces until we can achieve insight-which enables us to think our way into deep meaning, supplementing the incubation process.
Finally to achieve this goal using the internet the author suggests we should use these defintions to find the best information.
They are pose essentil questions, identify subsidary questions, open one's mind, suggest and test hypothesis, build and test models, plan your internet voyage, learn on the run, screen and compact internet garbage, sort and sift through data, analyze data, find what is missing, change course if necessary.