Helping Teens

"Multiple studies have shown that, while young people are adept at downloading their favorite songs from the Internet or instant messaging with their friends, the majority lack critical thinking and information literacy skills."

That is a quote from this article I read about ALA's Teen Tech Week, which is this week.

(http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=9503)

I just thought it was a good reminder that, while a teen asking a technology question might know more about ipods, webcams, or google than we do, we are the ones with the critical thinking and information literacy skills that the teen may be lacking. Just because a teen's question is about using the webcam and we may never have used one doesn't mean we won't be able to help him figure it out.