Does the Internet Rot our Brains?

Wikipedia as a "text"

Those Aussies sound like they're getting ahead of the curve with a new class called Global Village, "a course examining how the world's communities communicate and interact." It is being offered in New South Wales high schools, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. "Don Carter, the English inspector at the Board of Studies, said the course was intended to teach students skills of analysis to enable them to be more discerning about content they found on the web."