Deconstructing Digital Natives: Chapter 8 Beyond Google and The "Satisficing" Searching of Digital Natives.
1. What is the purpose of this chapter? To try and understand how students who are so familiar with today's technology, yet they use it so poorly for academics.
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? The early adoption of technology differ in gender(Males play more video games and get into disciplines where early adoption is a necessity) as well as geographic location(rural to metropolitan, on campus to off campus learners)
3. How do the authors define Information Literacy? It is defined as a set of skills and knowledge that allows the learner to find, evaluate, and use the appropriate information they find.
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 main thing I found most interesting is that students only use one search engine(Google) and don't go beyond the finding it provides. This unfortunately is the extent of my research as well.
5. What does the term "satisfcing" in the area of decision making mean? It is defined as taking the "satisfactory" option instead of the best option at any given time.
6. What are the differences to deep and surface level approaches to a learning task?It is to the extent of which one researches content.
7. What should educators aim to do to improve the scripts student have for sophisticated online information seeking? I believe that educators should dedicate a few class sessions to ensure students are using the appropriate links to research. If not that use progress reports of content resources or even give student a list of resources for them to use.
8. Why is Google's page rank system problematic for information seeking? The ranking process is flawed becuase it is ranked on how many hits it has so website such as Wikipedia is at the top of the list and that isn't bad but in order to find resources approved by educators the researcher/student would have to look much further.
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 would say that I am "digitally careful" because I make sure that certain links' content is as valid as I can find it. I don't use .com and try my best to find .edu or .gov-type sites.
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? It poses problems for students who are lazy(like I can be some of the time) because with so much more information available, that mean more useless and more concerning wrong content that students will use just to finish research. On the other side it can give students the opportunity to see all sides of the topic of their research which can lead to better content.
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