who are our students? presented by sabrina riley, mils for educ478 ©2008
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Who Are Our Students?
Presented by Sabrina Riley, MILS
For EDUC478©2008
Which words can you define?
Virtual, digital, mobile, real-time, archives, IM, TRIO, PDA, 24/7, preservation, conservation, metrics/measured, information, balanced, scholarly/popular, surface learning, literacy, fluencey, community, partnerships, Wiki’s, credibility, single-sign on, USB, iPod, bleeding edge, Del.icio.us, cloud tags, interactive, portal, gateway, outsource, open source, 2.0, download, up-load, librarything.com, RSS, RFID, hardwired, no-wires, blog, customized, research, accountable, Twitter, cutting edge, 21st century, Second Life, Facebook, MySpace, social networking, historic, clicker culture, Flickr, sustainable, marketable, green, profiling, following/supporting, leading, hybrid, courseware, complexity, metadata, simplicity
Beloit Mindset
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/
Sociologists’ Classifications
Baby-Boomer (1946-1964)• Digital Immigrants
Generation X (1965-1976)• Digital Adaptives
Millennial or Generation Y (1977-2002)• Digital Natives
Generation Z (Since 2002)
Generation X
Defining events: Cold War and rise of mass media
Easily adapted to new technology as they saw it evolve.
Cynical about leadership & rampant political apathy
Concerned about the environment
Generation Y (Millennails)
Defining events: War on Terror, Internet, and information technology have always been available.
Social networking, text messaging, gaming Practical & have their own ideas about what
they should learn Are use to fast-paced change Think they know more about technology than
they really do
Generation Z (speculation)
No memory of the War on Terror No concept of life without ubiquitous
information technology
Top Ten List
Information Literacy Instruction email discussion list
What are the top ten things high school seniors should know about college libraries?
Top Ten List
Article databases & library catalogs Talk to librarians Subject headings Know the difference between academic
journals and popular magazines How to avoid plagiarism
Top Ten List
How do search engines work Evaluating sources Services like course reserves, interlibrary
loan, and online tutorials Be familiar with both Dewey Decimal and
Library of Congress Classification Large universities often have more than
one library
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