时间:2019-01-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


英语课
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English.
 
Teachers say the digital age has had a good influence -- and a not-so-good influence -- on this generation of American teenagers. More than 2,000 middle and high school teachers took an online survey. Researchers also spoke 1 with teachers in focus groups.
 
Three-quarters of the teachers said the Internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” effect on their students’ research habits and skills. But 87 percent agreed that these technologies are creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans.” And 64 percent said the technologies “do more to distract students than to help them academically.” Many students think "doing research” now means just doing a quick search on Google.
 
The Pew Internet Project did the survey with the College Board and the National Writing Project. A majority of the teachers came from Advanced Placement classes, which provide college-level work for high school students.
 
Judy Buchanan is deputy director of the National Writing Project and a co-author of the report. Ms. Buchanan says digital research tools are helping 2 students learn more, and learn faster.
 
“Teachers really embrace these tools because they are ways to make some of learning exciting and engaging. Young people embrace these tools. And the goal is to really help them become creators of content, and meaningful content, and not just sort of consumers.”
 
But one problem the survey found is that many students are lacking in digital literacy. In other words, they trust too much of the information they find on the Internet. Judy Buchanan says these students have not developed the skills they need to judge the quality of online information.
 
“It’s just a lot to learn about how to discern credible 3 sources. And it’s something that really has to be taught and paid attention to. It’s like everything else -- in a world in which things can happen quickly, you really do need to have a way to step back, reflect and analyze 4 the information you have. And teachers can do a lot to teach that.”
 
Another problem the survey found is blamed on something that might not seem like a problem at all: being able to quickly find information online. Teachers say the result is a reduction in the desire and ability of their students to work hard to find answers. They say students are overly dependent on search engines and do not make enough use of printed books or research librarians.
 
Many teachers are also concerned that the Internet makes it easy for students to copy work done by others instead of using their own abilities.

n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
adj.可信任的,可靠的
  • The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
  • Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法?
vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
学英语单词
(R)-loxiglumide
abluded
active pressure
akumide
automatic roasting furnace
automotive design
balla
binary convolutional encoding
botment
buffed
cablecasts
catalysis element
chuck ... away
combined application
coming before
compiler manager
corn-picker
cost - of - living index
counter-offer
cross-stimulation
cylinder force
decomposition mechanism
detonating velocity
dextrane
digital data delay distortion
dimethylesculetin
DJSM
dorsal rays
Dublin Core
electrothermostal
Eucharistial
fast-laner
feed drum
financial accounting
flash media
flenge
flow bean choke
grading automatic sorter
gropeth
Harker Point
image of
imbricaria olivaeformis
imitation champagne
in memoriam
incentive compatibility
inscrolls
interprocess communications
Isles-sur-Suippe
james espy
lemakalim
litigious matter
Lopping-axe
lymphangiosarcoma
MacGyvering
mackaroon
MAG welding (metal active gas arc welding)
maisteresse
Maple-wax
mastonia rubra
Mdiq
metal-poor star
moighte
mucosus
NAIRS
nonpressure parts
nonsticky
normal hydrometer
onuss
OP (operation permit)
Ostellato
Pancrudo
pharyngotom
platypleura hilpa
podded propulsion system
prints off
projection printer
recovery.gov
rediffusion
republics of the marshall islands
reservoir sedimentation computation
rhythm guitar
samoud
sapatya (philippines)
simple branched acinar gland
sitogluside
size milk
space width of wormwheel
spathous
static test mode
step-by-step motor
thermoelectric property
thessalias
thistle funnel
thunder-gust
trumpet-shapeds
turfbound
two-layered ectoderm
universal galvanometer
user prompts
vegoil
Walter, Mitty
warm-up system