Google generation report by JISC and the British Library. This report is the first to look in detail at the information seeking behaviour of the so called 'Google Generation'. Several findings are of specific interest here: Discovery of new forms of behaviour online such as the 'bounce', the way in which information systems actually force all of us to find and use content differently (skimming for keywords, non-linear reading).
New research commissioned by JISC and carried out by Ipsos MORI suggests that students are starting to mix their social networking sites with their academic studies and inviting tutors and lecturers into their virtual space.
Article from The Scotsman Published Date: 21 June 2008
By MARTYN McLAUGHLIN
School children are underperforming because they are not good at searching the net, and are not critical enough of what they find. Furthermore, their poor habits in this area are leading to increased incidents of plagiarism.
Derek Law opinion piece on how digital natives are looking for 'just enough' information to complete the task in hand, if the information does not come to hand easily (or isn't online), it is assumed that it does not exist.
THES article. 5 June 2008
Does the Google generation, which has grown up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz investigates
M. Lupton, and C. Bruce. Practising Information Literacy : Bringing Theories of Learning, Practice and Information Literacy Together, Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W., (2010)