Test Your Internet Skills: Introducing the iSkills Assessment Colorado Springs CO

Test Your Internet Skills: Introducing the iSkills Assessment

Unless you've been stranded on a deserted island somewhere, you're probably familiar with using the Internet to gather information for school papers and other projects. In fact, if you're as wired as most students with a cell phone, MP3 player, laptop, or PDA — or all of the above — you probably can't imagine talking to your friends without text messaging and IM.

However, even with a head full of HTML and lightning-fast fingers on a keyboard, do you really know how to use the Internet to your best advantage when it comes to scholarly research? It may seem as easy as a couple of taps and a double click, but therein lies the problem. Educators and school officials are increasingly concerned that many students believe that great research material can be found by simply typing a properly-worded query into a search engine and clicking on the first few hits that appear. Given the thousands of hits most queries produce, it's deceivingly easy to find something of value, right?

It is possible, but it's just as likely to pull up a lot of unsubstantiated garbage, too!

Not-so-sophisticated
Several articles have surfaced recently citing studies and statistics indicating that many of today's high school and college students don't actually know how to use the Internet to find truly scholarly information that a professor would deem legitimate.

Author: Amy Ambler

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