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Re: [ARSCLIST] Zits cartoon strip (trying to get back to matters archival)



It might have been this op-ed piece from the NY Times:

OPINION | March 26, 2006
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/opinion/26tenner.html?ex=1144213200&en=0a1bc989fbb245c0&ei=5070&emc=eta1>Op-Ed Contributor: Searching for Dummies
By EDWARD TENNER
Are search engines making today's students dumber?


Alec McLane

At 09:59 AM 3/29/2006, Lou Judson wrote:
I'm sorry I did not save a link to something I read recently about some kind of test or survey that indicated kids who use the internet can only find things with search engines, not with boook and brains... I do not assume this meant discrimination, rather use of resources if not organized by algorithms. If I find it I'll post it, if not then this is just one of those "I read it on the net" messages...

Lou Judson ? Intuitive Audio
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On Mar 29, 2006, at 5:56 AM, Karl Miller wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Lou Judson wrote:

On the other hand, kids these days are able to search but barely to
reason...

I assume you mean the ability to discriminate? How does one tell the good from the bad and how do you tell what is "real" and what is not in the digital world.

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