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Here’s an interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed.  Its another study finding that today’s “Google generation” may be good at using computers but that doesn’t mean they are good at finding information, or evaluating its accuracy or usefulness.  I’ve found this to be true among our grad students, and my wife has found this with her college students too.  This is nothing new — one of the big reasons students are in school is to learn how to effectively find, evaluate and interpret information.  This is the way it was 20 years ago when I was an undergraduate, and its the same deal now. 

Computer Literacy Doesn’t Mean Information Literacy, Report Says - Chronicle.com

A new report from the Joint Information Systems Committee, a British higher-education research institute, says the “Google Generation” (those born after 1993, who can’t remember a time when the Internet wasn’t widely available) may be computer literate. But that doesn’t make them information literate.

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