Reading Report 5

"Information Navigation 101"

Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education

3/9/2007, Vol. 53 Issue 27

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i27/27a03801.htm

Technology now is an everyday thing. It also changes so often there is not anything new for long anymore. My generation now has advanced technology so far that we are sometimes the only ones that can use it. For example with the cell phones that now have access to the internet, text messaging, and tons of other application with cell phones. We now have facebook, myspace, and other website that we use to talk to people and find old friends. My generation is great at all these things but is horrible at using the technology at doing academic research.

If we can not access the research through google or any other basic search engine we tend to not care anymore and end up gathering a bunch of the same information. In the article here the California State School system is having classes and donating time for the student’s to learn how to do academic research. Its just so easy for students to go to Google and type in a key word and millions of hits pop up. We want something that it fast and quick. Students hate to spend long hours in any library doing research. After awhile it is easy to loss focus and use those non-academic search engines.

I don’t agree with some of the things the school system is doing to make students better at gathering information. The program of giving students test I totally disagree with. I feel as if there should be academic research class that is part of your basic studies and how well you research it yourself stand for the grade.