1. What is the purpose of this chapter?
How students, who are so clearly familiar and apparently adept with internet tools, are at times so poor at using the internet academically.
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?
When young people use the internet its to look at information they want to look at or watch a video or a movie. But when asked to use it for a class project or something they don't want to do it because they are not interested in the subject.
3.How do the authors define information literacy?
Eisenberg defines information literacy as the set of skills and knowledge that allows us to find, evaluate, and use the information we need as well as to filter out the information we don't need.
4. What is the "clear message" from a review of the studies focused on college students information seeking behavior? Do these findings reflect your own information seeking behaviors?
While students are often strategic and efficient information seekers within the digital landscape, they can also express frustration and impatience in their own searching abilities and skills.
5. What does the term "satisfacing" in the area of decision making mean?
One that is acceptable to an individual based on some personal criterion but it is a decision or course of action that is known not to be the best one.
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. 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?
They should aim to improve technology by giving them certain websites to go to. And don't let them take their homework outside of class schedule in class homework for one day this week.
8. Why is Google's page rank system problematic for information seeking?
Students can become disappointed and frustrated with the functionality and ease of use of online academic tools and services.This in turn may result in heavy reliance on familiar tools that are known to produce results.
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.
Yes I think I am because in my math class I didn't understand slope and it was a day that I didn't have math class so I looked up a lesson on slope and I ended up passing the test with a 100%.
10. Has the popularity of the internet and the information contained on the web created a new problem for undergraduate students research skills? Why or Why not?
Yes because when more years come undergraduate students is going to think that when they get homework or something that they will just look the answers up on the internet.
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