Double Entry Journal #15

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?

"Young people use technology, what technologies and technology-based tools young people are using and the extent to which they are using them." I do use technology a lot. I use it for personal enjoyment such as video games and watching movies, I use technology for school and at work. So yes this does reflect on me.

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 student’s information seeking behavior? Do these findings reflect 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." Yes I will use the internet to find anything even if I already know the answer I will still use it to check my answers. I use it all the time for school.

5. What does the term "satisficing" 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.

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 it interesting and aim to make them do better research.

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).

I think I am digitally wise. I had to find online sources for a paper I am writing in my English class.

10. Has the popularity of the Internet and the information contained on the Web created a new problem for undergraduate student’s research skills? Why of Why not?

I believe it has because when you use to do research there was probably only one book and that made it easier. Now you can find information anywhere on the internet and each page says something different and then you will have to do more research to find if the website you are on has any credibility or not.