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A report from Princeton, N.J.-based ETS found that the majority of high school and college students lack the proper critical thinking skills when it comes to researching online and using sources. The tests measured students' abilities to overcome three challenges they typically have: identify trustworthy and useful info; manage overabundant information; communicate information effectively.
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School resource officers, many of whom are city police officers stationed at the schools, say that tips on crimes can sometimes be gleaned from photos and content on social networking web sites. In some cases, students have been investigated and arrested.
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The new site features a tutorial for teachers on conducting better Web searches. Other tools include Google Earth, three-dimensional mapping software based on satellite imagery; SketchUp, a 3-D software program that lets students design buildings and explore geometric concepts; Google Book Search, which finds books that match studentsâ search terms; blog and photo-sharing software; and word-processing applications that allow students to work simultaneously on the same document from different computers.
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Google wants its vast network to become a storehouse of software applications and personal information for millions of people no longer tethered to a single computer. That ambition already has triggered alarms among privacy experts worried about so much personal information being entrusted to a single business.
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In what is believed to be one of the largest computer security breaches ever at a U.S. school, a hacker broke into a UCLA database containing the names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information of some 800,000 current and prospective students, school officials said Dec. 12.
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As students continue to use and develop networked environments, it may become the case that the status of being admitted into a community by its members exceeds the credibility gained through âoutsideâ peer review. As this process evolves, we may see a broader transformation in which learning becomes a process of participation in a community rather than of receiving knowledge from an âexpertâ.
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In what ways do digital technologies themselves affect credibility? I think the essential consequence is of increasing the diversity of credibility signals (both positive and negative, clarifying and obscuring). And at two levels--that of credibility of the content (whether a posting or about a person) and the credibility of the medium itself.
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Many individuals who are accessing information on the web have no experience in traditional skills of judgment and information aggregation (e.g., they are young). Most individuals are very unsophisticated in using online sources and donât like to spend their entire lives online (e.g., they are old).
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The origin of information, its quality, its veracity are in many cases less clear than ever before. Moreover, the same wide scale access & multiplicity of sources that ensure vast info availability also make assessing the credibility of info accurately complex. Youth are talented & comfortable users of technology, but they may lack crucial tools that aid them to seek/consume info effectively
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Network and IT security is one of the most important ed-tech issues today. With this in mind, the editors of eSchool News have assembled this collection of stories and articles from the eSN archives to help you identify potential security risks and guide you when making purchases and setting policies.
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A report from Princeton, N.J.-based ETS found that the majority of high school and college students lack the proper critical thinking skills when it comes to researching online and using sources. The tests measured students' abilities to overcome three challenges they typically have: identify trustworthy and useful info; manage overabundant information; communicate information effectively.
Google wants its vast network to become a storehouse of software applications and personal information for millions of people no longer tethered to a single computer. That ambition already has triggered alarms among privacy experts worried about so much personal information being entrusted to a single business.
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