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Thu 30 Oct, 2003 03:23 pm
Quote:WASHINGTON - Need some help navigating the Net? Your best consultant might be a kid. At school and at home, today's children and teens are so computer savvy and comfortable online that they've become technology pacesetters, two new government studies show.
About 90 percent of people ages 5 to 17 use computers and 59 percent of them use the Internet _ rates that are, in both cases, higher than those of adults. Even kindergartners are becoming more plugged in: One out of four 5-year-olds uses the Internet
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Makes sense. After all, 'Net use is rising and, as we all know, the 'Net is unfortunately becoming a great place to copy homework answers. So there's a compelling interest for students to learn to use the Internet and make sure they have access. It may not have been what was originally intended, but there it is -- the Internet's being used and not in the purely scientific manner which is how it was originally envisioned.
I'm curious if there are any increases in literacy or more expertise in literacy, among students, since the advent of the Internet. After all, you can't really use a PC unless you have some rudimentary knowledge of reading and writing. So there's a compelling interest there, too. Is that showing up in test scores? I wonder.
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