CNN.com - Students shun search for information offline - Dec 9, 2004

Update (2/7/2005) - Sorry, but the link is broken. CNN must shift these URLs. Too bad, I'd think that links like this would send them a lot of business. I guess I'll have to do a better job summarizing these stories for now on :)

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CNN.com - Students shun search for information offline - Dec 9, 2004





This is an interesting article on the "effect" that the internet has on students' approaches to research. It's one of those, "gee, I miss the good old days of card catalogues..." articles. The only point that it successfully makes, though, is that schools need to address information literacy. Check it out for yourself.

A time of rest is here

Well, not really. But at least this weekend I'll take it easy. This semester I didn't really have any finals to speak of. I have to present the results of a pilot study where a partner and I developed a coding instrument to identify changes in the way teachers perceive their roles in teaching ESL students. One class had no end of class assignments. A third class will be ongoing somewhat.



We are doing editing for the Handbook for Performance Improvement, and a partner and I are conducting a survey of CPT professionals on various items including their recommendations for newcomers to the field and other survey items. These will be written up for the Handbook. It's going to be a rush though. We've got to get this finished before classes start again in January, otherwise quals are going to get in the way.



Otherwise, I'll have a restful couple of weeks.