18 January 2008

Google generation

So what's true about the Google generation?

* They like to cut-and-paste. "There is a lot of anecdotal evidence and plagiarism is a serious issue."
* They prefer visual information over text. "But text is still important... For library interfaces, there is evidence that multimedia can quickly lose its appeal, providing short-term novelty.
* They multitask all the time. "It is likely that being exposed to online media early in life may help to develop good parallel processing skills."
arstechnica

4 comments:

psalmplasma said...

Alea's citate direct din Free Culture a lu' Lawrence Lessig - de citit pe google books.

dj plan b said...

da Lary e tare.
parallel processing, i was born for this shit :))

psalmplasma said...

Lary, frate?

dj plan b said...

eh, ne stim de mult, stii cum e... :))