Techno-file: None the Web-Wiser
Posted on April 30, 2008
Filed Under Culture, Techno-file | By Mike Dang
If you ask the average 18-year-old college freshman what RSS means, do you think he’ll know? No way, says a sociologist who studied the technological fluency of college freshmen in an interview with The Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog. According to the sociologist, other things students are having trouble grasping include: using the BCC function in e-mails, podcasting, and the fact that people can change things on Wikipedia at any given moment. Lending these not-so-savvy students a hand, two seminars are being taught at UCLA to teach students how to use Google and look beyond it. For students who are so adept at using tools like Facebook and mobile technologies, the lack of knowledge behind the practice is unexpected.
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