Testing for Technology Literacy

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Title:Testing for Technology Literacy (ID: CSD4841)
Author(s):Paul D. Thacker (Inside Higher Ed)
Topics:Information Literacy and Fluency, Student IT Competencies
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:"Professors, librarians, and other college officials are increasingly coming to grips with the somewhat confounding reality that despite students' affinity for IPods and their complete comfort with Google, many of them lack the technological literacy they need to navigate today's information landscape. But recognizing the problem is not the same as knowing how to measure or fix it — tasks that many colleges are puzzling over."
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