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Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test?
Grundelfeldsten writes "The Educational Testing Service -- the maker of the SAT and the GMAT -- has a new test called the Information and Communication literacy assessment. The test is designed to measure your "ability to make sense of the multiple streams of information that our computers throw at us every day," according to a Wired News reporter who just took it and described the process. The questions focus on completing tasks with Internet technologies, like using search engines efficiently and weeding out irrelevant email messages. Are such tasks really tied to technology? Or is "Information and Communication literacy" just a way for ETS to make money by selling more tests?"
Avoiding flash, popups and cookies gives you IT_literacy++.
You are given a Slashdot poll. How should you respond?
A) Choose an honest and accurate option
B) Choose an obviously ridiculous option
C) Do not answer, and complain that your preferred option was unavailable.
D) Refuse to answer, citing moral, philosophical opposition to the poll itself.
E) CowboyNeal
Surely a better test would be to measure the user's ability to use tools (spam filters, RSS feed aggregators, tivo-style commercial skipping, popup blockers, slashdot dupe checkers etc) to efficiently cope with / filter the "multiple streams of information" we're all bombarded with?
No Norm, those are your safety glasses; I'll wear my own thanks...
I am male /.er.
Please don't tease the trolls.
The Singularity is closer than you think
Quant
I can state absolutely that I was not a racist in 1925.
rewriting history since 2109
So can we ;)
I alerady fialde teh litarecy tset yuo insenistvie cold!
Remember children, all generalizations are wrong.
Have I passed?
I thought April 1 was almost 2 weeks ago?
OK, I've said that there should be a test to use teh internets, but I was just joking...
A) Y C) sux0r B) w00t! D)meh
A B C D 1. May I ask your kindness in moving sum of 28 million US dollars?
A B C D 2. Woul\d yo/u like to s|ho0t ga%llons of c*U%m?
A B C D 3. Would you like a FREE iPOD?
A B C D 4. Me too!
A B C D 5. RUHOTT?
A B C D 6. Does it support OGG?
someone who knows how to code pages in a text editor
What? there's an other way? Now you tell me.
Sir, can you explain that simple concept to my wife? I get in serious trouble every time I try :-)
The first 350 attempts for me are totally calm, compassionate, and loving, after that I have a tendency to mutter various sentences starting with 'WTF' under my breath.
When will people realize that people are not something that can be graded on 1 demential grading scale, and things like common sense, experience, creativity, determination, or bravery
I'm wondering; did you mean demential (in a state of dementia) or dimensional (having a measure of extent)? I think they both fit just as well in today's IT world!
Do YOU qualify for a free iPod?
Geek slapfight!
I love it when the IT monkeys get all uppity and the code monkeys go on the defensive.
"I'm a real engineer"
"No you're not, you just plug cables into computer boxes"
"That's boxen, and you don't even know how to change your password"
"That's your job, IT monkey. My job is to write code"
"I write code"
"bash scripts are not code"
"Yeah, well you run Windows!"
"I also get paid more than you and have an actual career ahead of me"
"Shut up and join the Counterstrike server already"
Wut college r u in that accepts ppl that rite as poorly as u do lol hehehe?
Not every argument requires reduction to absurdity.
A couple of years ago, I worked with a developer who didn't know the "shortcut" key for build and I thought that was bad... little did I know...
Just yesterday, I watched a "programmer" fix a function on an object with a member named nSize. The function took parameter nSize1 and never set the member.
How does my coworker fix this? He selects nSize from the declaration with the mouse (already, I'm annoyed) and then right clicks to select "copy"...
Then, he scrolls down to the function definition, using the mouse and the scroll bar (not the wheel) and clicks where he's gonna insert the assignment... Then, he uses the keyboard to hit return and tab to put the cursor in the right spot (both hands on the keyboard for this). Then, back to the mouse, right click: "paste".
Ok, so now I'm really annoyed, the amount of text above was typed in about the amount of time he took to do all of this - and "nSize" really isn't all that hard to type, right?
It gets better... He switches both hands back to the keyboard, types a space and hits the "=" key (again, both hands) then, back to the mouse...
What he did next almost caused my head to explode...
You and I both know he's got "nSize" in memory, just waiting to be pasted again, then it's pretty easy to append the number 1 on it... But no, he has to actually select the parameter from the function definition, right click: copy, move the cursor back to the line of code he's trying to write, right click: paste, then type the semi-colon (this is C#).
Holy crap - that's a helluva lotta work for:
nSize = nSize1;
I didn't change the variable name to protect the innocent. This really is the line of code he used the mouse to write.
Of course, this guy uses the mouse to do everything - but seriously, he's been coding for at least five years - does it take that long to learn how to type? Much less use ctrl-c / ctrl-v...
</rant>
-bs
That that is is not that that is not. That that is not is not that that is.
Sample test:
Are you 1337?
yes
no
WHAT R U STOPID OR SUMTHING!!!!?
yes
no
Use 'w00t' in a sentence.
(Men)Type 30wpm with your left hand only.
Where does the green speaker plug go?
blue jack
red jack
green jack
CowboyNeal
Extra credit:
You have 1 comma, 1 single quote, 1 double quote, 1 question mark, and 34 exclamation points. Punctuate:
I WAS AT MY GFS HOUSE B4 AND SHE TOTALLY WAS LIKE MIKE U BITCH GET ME COOKIES AND I WAS LIKE BITCH WHAT YOUR GONNA GET A FATTASS HA UR TEH SUXORZ HAH HA w00t w00t
Please stop stalking me, bro.