Double entry journal #15

Deconstructing Digital Natives: Chapter 8 Beyond Google and The "Satisficing" Searching of Digital Natives. 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? Most students are comfortable with the idea that they are avid users and adapters of new technologies. I am comfortable with using most technology but do not feel that I am completely knowledgeable in the area. 3. How do the authors define Information Literacy? The set of skills and knowledge that allows us to find, evaluate, and use the information that we need, as well as 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? Students had difficulties conducting college level research and were challenged by the tasks of accessing appropriate research material, narrowing down their search topics to make them more manageable, and were overwhelmed by the scope and range of resources available to them. I understand this statement. Sometimes I am confused by the information that is presented to me and how to make sure it is true and accurate information. This class has went along way in helping me sort some of it out but sometimes I still feel confused. 5. What does the term "satisfcing" in the area of decision making mean? When presented with a range of options that could be pursued, a satisficing decision is one that is acceptable to the individual based on some personal criterion, but it is a decision or course of action that is known to be the best one. 6. What are the differences to deep and surface level approaches to a learning task?  The students that 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. 7. What should educators aim to do to improve the scripts student have for sophisticated online information seeking? The behavior and attitudes of students when it comes to scholarly information seeking is indicative of satisficing search strategies that are associated with a surface approach to learning in higher education. 8. Why is Google's page rank system problematic for information seeking? The pagerank algorithm that underpins Google's search results associates relevance with visibility ( the more pages that link to a given page the higher its ranking). 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 have found that I can start with a search engine and go form there. Google, or Firefox or I may even use wikipedia pages for a basis to start my research. I then use the links or web pages. Then possibly look up other webpages with the information I am seeking. I try to validate the information given/ 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? I feel that it has. If a student is not sure how to filter the information given it can cause problems for that student.