1. What is the purpose of this chapter?
To move past the ideas of students as digital natives.
2. What is the major finding from a review of studies that have looked at technology adoption of young people?. Does this finding seem to reflect your own use of technology?
It says that "Young people use technology, what technologies and technology-based tools young people are using and the extent to which they are using them." To me this is confusing but I honestly do not think I use technology a lot. I know people my age who do not even know how to send an email.
3. How do the authors define Information Literacy?
Information Literacy is "the digital (and non-digital)strategies university students use to locate and access information and resources for their studies."
4. What is the "clear message" from a review of the studies focused on college students information seeking behavior? Do these findings relfect your own information seeking behaviors?
The clear message is that "all that is required is a computer, Internet access, and for access to sanctioned scholarly content, the necessary authentication." This information is true I can not do homework or my job without internet.
5. What does the term "satisfcing" in the area of decision making mean?
"The social scientist Herbert Simon is attributed with coining the term 'satisficing' in the area of decision-making to describe the decisions individuals take that are satisfactory but are not 'maximal' or optimal."When contending that "students' behavior, attitudes, and values surrounding scholarly information seeking reflect a culture of 'satisficing' decision-making that is in turn indicative of a surface approach to learning."
6. What are the differences to deep and surface level approaches to a learning task?
"Students who adopted a 'deep' approach to the learning task were inclined to focus on trying to comprehend the meaning behind learning material. Students who adopted a 'surface' approach to the learning task tended to focus on simply reproducing what was contained within the learning material with little concern for understanding the overall meaning."
7. What should educators aim to do to improve the scripts student have for sophisticated online information seeking?
Make the topic interesting.
8. Why is Google's page rank system problematic for information seeking?
.They go by popularity and pay outs and not accuracy and unbiased.
9. Are you "digitally wise" when it comes to information seeking? Give an example of how you approached an information seeking task for one of your academic courses this semester (do not include this class).
According to this book, I am "digitally wise." When I research information about psychologist I use google, but i find the accurate websites.
10. Has the popularity of the Internet and the information contained on the Web created a new problem for undergraduate students research skills? Why of Why not?
In my opinion, the Internet has helped students find information faster by containing most, if not all, information contained in books. This may not be a good thing however because if the internet goes they wont know how to use a book. Some students also use the internet to cheat and it makes them lazy.
No comments:
Post a Comment