Monday, September 1, 2008

You can fool some of the people

NET RESULTS: Adults allow themselves to be duped by websites requesting bank and credit card numbers, writes Karlin Lillington
A COMMON complaint I hear from teachers, whether they are working with young children or young adults, is that students today lack digital media literacy skills.
This does not mean that they are not digitally literate. These are the generations that grew up with and regularly use the internet, downloads, uploads, podcasts, websites, weblogs, social networking, chat and the rest.
The concern, in a world where one UN survey shows that children spend about twice as much time absorbing information from electronic media such as the internet, television and video games as they spend in school, is that they do not have very good skills at interpreting information from online sources. Read More

Courtesy: Irish Times

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