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Improve Computer-research Skills Like many college students, Jose Juarez carries around a pocket-sized computer that lets him watch movies, surf the Internet and text-message his friends. Hes part of Generation M - those bom after 1985 who_____ 51 up connected to everything from video game to cellphones. For us, its everyday life, said Juarez, 18, a freshman_____ 52 California State University at Sacramento . _____53 , educators are now saying that not all Generation M-ers can synthesize the piles of information theyre accessing. Theyre geeky, but they dont know what to_____ 54 with their geekdom, said Barbara OConnor, a Sacramento State communications studies professor who has been involved in a nationwide_____ 55 to improve students computer-research skills. In a recent nationwide test to_____ 56 their technological literacy - their ability to use the Internet to complete class assignments - only 49 percent correctly evaluated a set of Web sites for objectivity, authority and timeliness. Only 35 per cent could correctly narrow an overly_____57 Internet search. About 130 Sacramento State students, including Juarez, participated in the experimental test, _____ 58 to 6,300 college students across the country. The hour-long assessment test is conducted by Educational Testing Service. It is a web-based scavenger hunt _____ 59 simulated Internet search engines and academic databases that spit out purposely misleading information. | 
