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College Freshmen Struggle With Tech Literacy
snow_man writes to mention an article on the E-Commerce News site about techno-literacy problems with incoming college freshmen. Some schools, like CSU, are planning on including a technology comprehension test alongside their English and Math evaluations for new students. From the article: "Not all of Generation M can synthesize the loads of information they're accessing, educators say. 'They're geeky, but they don't know what to do with their geekdom,' said Barbara O'Connor, a Sacramento State communications studies professor involved in a nationwide effort to hone students' computer-research skills. On a recent nationwide test to measure their technological 'literacy' -- their ability to use the Internet to complete class assignments -- only 49 percent of the test-takers correctly evaluated a set of Web sites for objectivity, authority and timeliness. Only 35 percent could correctly narrow an overly broad Internet search."
I swear this was posted a few months ago, but it seems this particular article is new.
Well, I am still a virgin though I built up a D-II Sourceress to upper 60 as a freshman.
:-)
Just a year out of college I started off at 80k/year. And I am still a geek, but...
When I do find a girl I care about, I would be able to buy her 100 white orchids, hand delivered. Every day. Until she lets me take her on a helicopter ride. To a private jet. To Paris. Where she gets a burger and a large coke, and some fries at their local McDonnlds. And a diamond ring (the kind some will never afford). And we spend the night at my future beachside villa in Cannes
And in the morning I will get an artist to paint a cubist portret of her, in the nude. On the bed of magnolia petals.
And I won't have to worry how to make my food stamps last for a week so that I can deposit that $180 so that my check doesn't bounce. And how my idea of a night out would be getting a sixpack, watching "the game", then fucking the pig I live with for 2 mins.
It sucks that I still get to pay all that welfare for the bastard children of the guys that spent their college years fucking, doing drugs, and destroying their brain.