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."

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Re:What about non-internet sources?

[ravenshrike]

Define credible. Current "credible" sources have the 2nd amendment as:

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed when in fact the ONLY ratified version of the amendment is

A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The only major example of the former is from a rough draft of the BoR when the 2nd was still the 4th.