Does the Web make students smarter, or smarty-pants? - SIRI AGRELL, Globe and Mail
As Leslie Chan delivered a lecture about the history of the United Nations to his students at the University of Toronto earlier this year, some pupils took notes on laptops, others dozed and one was busy reading the UN website to verify the dates and figures being presented by his teacher. "After a couple of minutes, he pointed out to me that one of the things I said was outdated," Mr. Chan said. "It was a good example of fact checking, and I welcomed it. But he was so caught up with proving me wrong that he missed the point of the lecture."

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