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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Survey: Map reading is a redundant skill

TV network Nickelodeon recently polled kids and adults about what they need to know. 21% of kids said they didn’t need to be good spellers. Relevant to our world:

Twenty percent of adults and 21% of kids think map reading is a redundant skill.

I guess once you find the map on the Web or your handheld you don’t need to use it? I could find no word on the size and scope of the survey in the newspaper in question or on the Nick website.

- The New York Daily News

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