We have the same problem to some extent in our FE college. It seems to
be an extension of the need to be spoon-fed.
Pat Willimott
Heritage User Group Colleges Representative
Honeywell Learning Resource Centre
Barnsley College
PO Box 266
Church St
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2YW
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Subject: Use of computers by children
Sorry to those of you not interested.
Has anyone working in a public library noticed how children use
computers? In the branch library I work in we have noticed recently
that children using our PATs have become lazy when researching projects
for school. Whereas in the past they wanted book after book, now the
first site on the internet is printed out and the material handed into
school, very often I suspect unread. Teachers in our local school have
also noticed this habit. We have all of the classes of the local
primary school visit us every week for library skills sessions and I
have been trying to teach the older classes how to use the internet
efficiently and safely and I have noticed also that children with quite
good comprehension skills do not translate them to using the computer.
They simply do not READ what is on the screen. They look at images on
the screen and want instant information fed to them. Those who do not
rely on print-outs copy verbatim what the site contains but can repeat
very little !
of the
information in their own words. I would be interested to find out if
this is a local phenomenon or is it wide spread?
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