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