Entry 15

1. What is the purpose of this chapter?
     
    To gain the understanding the Digital Natives are not just students or kids.


2. What is the major finding from a review of studies that have looked at technology adoption of young people?. Does this finding seem to reflect your own use of technology?
   
    It say that we the Natives don't jump right in on new technology. Personal I like having the latest thing to stay ahead.


3. How do the authors define Information Literacy?

   "The set of skills and knowledge that allows us to find, evaluate, and use the info. we need, as well as to filter out the info. we don't need."

4. What is the "clear message" from a review of the studies focused on college students information seeking behavior? Do these findings relfect your own information seeking behaviors?

   It says that sometimes students may be efficient and persistent while researching. However, they often tend to get bored and frustrated whenever they can't find something quickly. I agree.

5. What does the term "satisfcing" in the area of decision making mean? It is a term that reflects acceptability.

    It meaning justifing the decison and it is acceptable

6. What are the differences to deep and surface level approaches to a learning task?

    Deep concerns looking into the meaning of some material. Surface level just involves the main concept and it doesn't go into the meaning.

7. What should educators aim to do to improve the scripts student have for sophisticated online information seeking?

   Educators should train students to do better research and how to do it efficiently.

8. Why is Google's page rank system problematic for information seeking?

   Google pick out term in what you ask and usually  bring back Wiki as the top result.

9. Are you "digitally wise" when it comes to information seeking? Give an example of how you approached an information seeking task for one of your academic courses this semester (do not include this class).

    I haven't done a lot of research yet this semester but i consider myself to be good a finding which site not to use. Lately i have been the library site to look u information for a paper.

10. Has the popularity of the Internet and the information contained on the Web created a new problem for undergraduate students research skills? Why of Why not?

   Yes, becasue there is so much out we have trouble knowing what it correct and what is false.