Sunday, April 1, 2012

Connecting and Disconnecting


The RSS has more information about my major’s field of social work than I could ever read. This has a ton of benefits including being able to reinforce things I already know with specific examples from real world situations. For example in my classes about social work I have learned that you cannot make decisions for your clients. I was then able to read about how making decisions for them can really harm them and does not really allow them to grow. I also learned in class that it is very helpful to make lifegraps of your clients. Using RSS I was able to find templates of lifegraps I could use and step by step directions on how to make them. Anything I already know about my field I can easily search and multiple sources will pop up directly relating to the topic. This is really helpful in continuing to expand my education. However having so many sources and articles to read can sometimes be a bad thing. What I mean by this is that there are a lot of different theories and ideas about social work. So I could potentially go on and read two articles that say the complete opposite thing. This can really make me question what I have already learned and what I should believe. Is what I am learning wrong, or is the information on here wrong? Even though RSS makes connecting with your topic easy you still have to know how to use it correctly. You have to be careful when reading the information on here by knowing how to identify quality information. It can really disconnect you from what you have already learned. 

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