Among U.S. K-12 teachers (Control+F knowledge) is around 50%, with huge variations by school district and location. As you’d guess, tech-savvy schools (districts) do reasonably well. But most of the U.S. is not tech-savvy. I’ve seen many cases where the lack of the ability to find a text on the web page leads to all kinds of scholastic hilarity.
- Dan Russell, Über Tech Lead, Search Quality & User Happiness at Google in “A Google Researcher Reveals 4 Crucial Things ‘Average Users’ Should Know But Don’t” (via fastcompany)
Sad but becoming even more true. My one fear is that our reliance on technology as an Educational KEY is making our children into worker bees and far from independent thinkers.
