ModBee.com has This One that says for many of today\’s students, the Dewey Decimal System is ancient history.
They are talking about The Study by Pew Internet & American Life Project. Seventy-three percent of the 12- to 17-year-olds who were interviewed said they used the Internet. And of the 754 Internet users surveyed, 94 percent said they used it for academic research.
I haven\’t gone through the study myself, but the results don\’t look good as reported.
\”You can find stuff about basically anything on the Internet,\” said Brittany Pittman, a high school sophomore, who used the Internet for a paper on Princess Diana last year. \”It\’s so much easier than finding something in the library.\”
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