It’s Not About Technology, Stupid

May 14, 2007 – 12:27 pm

Inside Higher Ed asks Are College Students Techno Idiots? Slashdot summarized it this way:
Are college students techno idiots? Despite the inflammatory headline, Inside Higher Ed asks an interesting question. The article refers to a recent study by ETS, which analyzed results from 6,300 students who took its ICT Literacy Assessment. The findings show that students [...]

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Middlebury College vs. Wikipedia

February 21, 2007 – 11:05 pm

Middlebury College is proud to have taken a stand against Wikipedia this year:
Members of the Vermont institution’s history department voted unanimously in January to adopt the statement, which bans students from citing the open-source encyclopedia in essays and examinations.
Without entirely dismissing Wikipedia — ?whereas Wikipedia is extraordinarily convenient and, for some general purposes, extremely useful…? [...]

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