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Trip Tic to GPS (gather, plagiarize, “so what”?): Navigating in the “Information Google Can’t Provide World”. Are our students ready for college?. Project Information Literacy http:// www.projectinfolit.org FINDING CONTEXT : - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Trip Tic to GPS (gather, plagiarize, “so what”?): Navigating in the “Information Google Can’t Provide World”
Are our students ready for college?
So far, we have found that no matter where students are enrolled, no matter what information resources they may have at their disposal, and no matter how much time they have, the abundance of information technology and the proliferation of digital information resources make conducting research uniquely paradoxical: Research seems to be far more difficult to conduct in the digital age than it did in previous times.
Project Information Literacyhttp://www.projectinfolit.org
FINDING CONTEXT:
What Today’s College Students Say about
Conducting Research in the Digital Age
Head, Allison J., PhD, and Michael B. Eisenberg, PhD. FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age. Project Information Literacy. Information School, University of Washington, 2009. Web. 22 Dec. 2011. <FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age>.
Challenges to Researching in the Digital Age
Students Surveyed Research Problem84% Getting Started
66% Defining a topic
62% Narrowing it down
61% Filtering through irrelevant results
Compare that to (CAI) Plagiarism statistics:1999 10%2000 72 % (HS Students)2001 41% (college students)Jospehson Instituteof Ethics, 2004 national survey: 62% (HS students)
Our World
Teen Internet Truisms• Wikipedia is king• Google is awesome• Want news? Go online• Social networking is good for homework • IM> email / Email is so yesterday – it’s for old people and teachers• If it’s not on the front page, it probably isn’t worthwhile anyway• “Good enough” is good enough• Free is good• Downloading is OK as long as you’re not selling it• I get scared sometimes, but I can take care of myself
New Literacies
• Technology Literacy • Information Literacy• Media Creativity• Global Literacy• Literacy with
Responsibility
Responsible Use
• Plagiarism• Cheating• Downloading illegally• Sharing files illegally• Center for Academic Integrity
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What’s the Biggest Learning Gapfor College Freshmen?
• Finding books: classification and catalogs• Going beyond Google and Wikipedia• Determining the best kinds of sources• Knowing different types of sources: scholarly/peer-reviewed
journals, primary sources, article vs. journal• How to choose a database (what IS a database?)• Use of key words• How to cite correctly and avoid plagiarism• And some are just scared about libraries The issue is often quality, not quantity
Finding information!
Critical Use Requires Information Literacy
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What Compass Can I provide?
• Library Wiki• Collaborative Lesson Planning
with the classroom teacher
Some of the information in this presentation is loosely adapted with permission from
Dr. Lesley FarmerCalifornia State University Long Beach
Works Cited:Head, Allison J., PhD, and Michael B. Eisenberg, PhD. FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age. Project Information Literacy. Information School, University of Washington, 2009. Web. 22 Dec. 2011. <FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the
Digital Age>.
Thank you.
Questions or Concerns:LaDawna Harrington, MLS
Millburn High School [email protected]
