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I’m shocked to discover there’s gambling in this casino…
I recently read the February 2009 Project Information Literacy Progress Report from the Information School at the University of Washington, titled “Finding Context: What Today’s College Students Say...
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“Dear Plagiarist”
More plagiarism in the news this week– actions do (sometimes) have consequences. Regret the Error reported that Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student working as a summer intern at the Colorado Springs...
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Wikipedia kid: “a student who has poor research skills and lacks the ability...
Thanks to John McIntyre’s language and editing blog, You Don’t Say, I discovered the new term “Wikipedia kid.” According to the website Word Spy: The Word Lover’s Guide to New Words, a Wikipedia kid is...
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More from Project Information Literacy: “the librarian approach is based on...
Back in April, I wrote a long post titled “I’m shocked to discover there’s gambling in this casino…” about Project Information Literacy’s February 2009 report, “Finding Context: What Today’s College...
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Yet another study shows that “digital natives” suck at searching
I’ve blogged before about studies showing that so-called “digital natives” lack basic information literacy skills and have great difficulty doing academic research and finding and evaluating sources....
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Let’s talk about search
So my last post, “Yet another study shows that ‘digital natives’ suck at searching,” seems to have struck a nerve– it’s received over 5000 hits (thanks to links from BoingBoing and Fark, as well as...
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