The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all

January 19th, 2008

Arstechnica - “A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite the Internet super-sleuths they’re sometimes made out to be. For instance, are teens better with technology than older adults? Perhaps, but they also “tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine.”

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1. Simon Chamberlain’s library weblog » Blog Archive » Late January roundup Says:
   January 29th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

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