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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.
Britteny, who parties with Paris Hilton, is a star.
plus
"Intelligent Design" replaces evolution as a predominant science.
Oh, ya. The trend is, clear and why does anyone act surprised? Satan, or Bush, has taken over the public information channels, and the minds of the young and stupid.
Ok! Next weird incidence of congenital idiocy, please?
Well, I am still a virgin though I built up a D-II Sourceress to upper 60 as a freshman.
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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.
I thought generation M stood for "Microsoft": kids born after 1980 with no concept of a time for home computers before Windows. That would go hand-in-hand with computer illiteracy anyway!