Schooliblit
News, ideas, questions, tips, links, and musings about school library media centers, information literacy, books and reading, and technology in education.
Online Generation A Generation of Shifted Kids Growing Up. Studies: 90 Percent of Kids Use Computers
"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.
The figures come from a new Education Department analysis of computer and Internet use by children and adolescents in 2001. A second report from the agency, based on 2002 data, shows 99 percent of public schools have Internet access, up from 35 percent eight years ago." ... [The Shifted Librarian] TSL quotes a Salon article. I second the good comment at the end.
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Word Without Borders Words without Borders - the Online Magazine for International Literature http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/ Aims to "promote international communication through translation of the world's best writing -- selected and translated by a distinguished group of writers, translators, and publishing professionals -- and publishing and promoting these works (or excerpts) on the web." Currently featuring literature from Iraq.
[Neat New Stuff] What a wonderful resource, not for research, but for reading. I want to spend a lot of time with this one.
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