Education Report - What Teachers Think of the Digital Age

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VOA Learning English, this is Education in Special English. say the digital age has been both a good bad influence on this generation of American teenagers. More 2,000 middle and high school teachers took an online . Researchers also spoke with teachers in focus groups. Three-fourths the teachers said the Internet and digital search tools had a "mostly positive" effect on their students' research and skills. But 87 percent agreed that these technologies creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans." 64 percent said the technologies "do more to distract than to help them academically." Many students think "doing " now means just doing a quick search on Google. Pew Internet Project did the survey with the College and the National Writing Project. A majority of the came from Advanced Placement classes, which provide college-level work high school students. Judy Buchanan is with the National Project and a co-author of the report. She says research tools are helping students learn more, and learn . But, one problem the survey found is that many are lacking in digital literacy. In other words, they too much of the information they find on the . Judy Buchanan says these students have not developed the they need to judge the quality or credibility of information. They also say being able to quickly find online hurts their students' ability to work hard to answers. Many teachers are also concerned that the Internet it easy for students to copy work done by instead of using their own abilities. For VOA Learning , I'm Carolyn Presutti.

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