Failing computer literate students
In the article Teachers ‘risk failing computer-literate children’ professor David Buckingham argues that teachers are beginning to fail their computer literate students.
Research by the University of Bristol earlier this year found that teachers were happy using computers at home, but would not take the risk of getting it wrong in front of a class of [...]
Too much time online?
In Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up - New York Times, parents are worried that their kids spend too much time on the computer:
In interviews and surveys many parents say that their children spend
too much time in front of computers and on cellphones. Some parents
worry that long, sedentary hours spent at [...]
Are teenagers tech savvy?
Some adults are intimidated by the the technological knowledge of today’s youth, but it appears that kids today are not as good with technology as they appear.
The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web.
When dealing with students and technology, one obstacle is [...]
Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia, maintains a page dedicated to corrections in Wikipedia that are not yet corrected in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Wikipedia does recognize its flaws though:
Some have claimed that Wikipedia (or any open media project) can never be as “authoritative” as EB (and other credentialed commercial projects). Many would argue that —at present —EB [...]