Students must know how to discriminate fact from fiction, how to decide what facts are relevant, and why one technique works above another. Students should learn how to pose questions, how to construct their own interpretations and ideas, and how to clarify and elaborate upon the ideas of others to acquire the understanding that can serve as the foundation for a lifetime of learning. The Internet allows students to become self-directed, knowledge navigators. Student explorers reach out and touch experts in the community, in the state, and around the world, as pioneers in the search for knowledge and as hands-on practitioners. For example, newsgroups help inform readers of subject areas.
Students have the opportunity to comment on topics and pose questions.
In a sense, when a question is posted the student is exposed to thousands of people who have an interest in the subject area and could be considered teachers. Wilson H. Craig Jr. stated that the front edge of the Information Age is rushing upon us with the speed of a cascading avalanche. And it is picking up momentum both in the number of new users joining Internet and also the increased speed and scope of the technical equipment to furnish data and graphics. Mosaic is a tool which facilitates our children's new style of learning to easily access global information. At the dawn of our information era, information is relatively free or low cost.