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               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 176.
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   [1] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu> (170)
         Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2006

   [2] From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG> (19)
         Subject: Ubiquity 7.34

   [3] From: Perry Willett <pwillett_at_umich.edu> (98)
         Subject: MBooks

   [4] From: "Jack Boeve" <JBoeve_at_umuc.edu> (72)
         Subject: Autumn 2006 Online Workshops from the Center for
                 Intellectual Property

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         Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:54:34 +0100
         From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
         Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2006

TL INFOBITS August 2006 No. 2 ISSN: Not Yet=
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About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the
ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources that come to
her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to
educators.

NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitaug06.html

You can read all back issues of Infobits at
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/

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TECHNOLOGY LITERACY TEST REVEALS STUDENT DEFICIENCIES

Educational Testing Service's Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) Literacy Assessment "uses scenario-based tasks to measure both
cognitive and technical skills . . . and assesses individual student
proficiency." Institutions that were early adopters of the test are
finding that it reveals student deficiencies in critical areas. "Of
10,000 high school and college students asked to evaluate a set of Web
sites last fall, nearly half could not correctly judge which was the
most objective, reliable and timely, according to preliminary results
of a digital-literacy assessment." ["Students Don't Know Much Beyond
Google," by Leila Fadel; STAR-TELEGRAM, July 27, 2006;
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15134538.htm]

While college students may be competent Google searchers, many lack
skills for evaluating online resources and are unaware of other digital
resources, such as library databases, that could provide more reliable
content. The test's results indicate the need for more formal training
for students at all levels to acquire the skills they need to
critically evaluate online resources.

For more information on the ICT, go to
http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509=
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