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Re:Kids might be digital natives – but a study shows they ar... by salawat on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:32PM (#26073902)
Not to me. I think those of us that learned the art of the search engine before Search Engine Optimization had an environment to learn fundamental skills in that has all but disappeared in the adversarial rush for top search result. I can't say as any of the kids I know have even shown an inkling of awareness on how to do research at all. I just see a bunch of online sources being attributed to in the locality I live in.

Yet when I was in school, you were trained, and expected to delve into online, periodical, book, magazine, film, archive, you name it. Those skills, and navigating systems of information organization are critical to creating the pre-requisite intution for composing boolean logic in arbitrarily advanced ways.

I can't imagine how difficult it must be for kids now to find things when there is an entire industry focused around exploiting/manipulating the overall information index of the Internet. Nevermind for evaluating the resulting content for usefulness or veracity.

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