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Colleagues/
FYI: Computer Literacy Doesn't Mean Information Literacy,
Report Says
/Gerry
The next generation of college students, more wired than any
other,
might not be as good at Internet research as you may think.
A new report from the Joint Information Systems Committee
[JISC], a
British higher-education research institute,
_Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future_
[
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/medi
a/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf
]
says the *Google Generation* (those born after 1993, who
can*t
remember a time when the Internet wasn*t widely available)
may be
computer literate. But that doesn*t make them information
literate.
Some of the key problems the study found include:
>>>Young people don*t develop good search
strategies to find quality
information.
>>>They might find information on the Internet
quickly, but they
don*t know how to evaluate the quality of what they find.
>>>They don*t understand what the Internet really
is: a vast network
with many different content providers.
The report details the implications of these problems for
library
professionals. It says library resources should be more
unified with
Internet tools like Google, and adapt to the changing ways
younger
generations gather information.
[snip]
[
http
://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2670/computer-literacy-
doesnt-mean-information-literacy-report-says
]
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck iastate.edu
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