Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Double Entry Journal #15

The purpose of this chapter is to move beyond commonly held views of students as digital natives. 

"Young people use technology, what technologies and technology-based tools young people are using and the extent to which they are using them."

Information Literacy is "the digital (and non-digital)strategies university students use to locate and access information and resources for their studies."

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 also reflects my information seeking behaviors.


"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."

"Students who adopted a 'deep' approach to the learning task were inclined to focus on trying to comprehend the meaning behind learning material, whereas 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."

To improve the scripts student have for sophisticated online information seeking, educators should make the topic being researched more interesting.


"Undergraduate students had difficulties finding and using appropriate information for their studies."


According to this book, I am not "digitally wise." When I research information about artists for my design course I always use Google or other search engines.


In my opinion, the Internet has helped students find information faster by containing most, if not all, information contained in books. Also, this can make students smarter to a certain extent. Because it contains all of this information with easy access through search engines, the Internet could possibly research skills away from students, but at a good cost.

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