[Web4lib] CHE: ***Computer*** Literacy Doesn't Mean ***Information*** Literacy

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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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/media/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 at iastate.edu 

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