Re: GEN: Teens: Internet Over Library

[Juliann Moskowitz <juliann14@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I haven't read the report but from my experience as a media specialist in a
middle/high school I would like to dispute the statistic that students are
"becoming intuitively more sophisticated in selecting Internet..." It has
been my experience that they will accept anything that gives them the answer
they want. They have little critical thinking skills.

How should we respond to the increasing usage of the Internet? We need to
keep drumming into their heads how to evaluate web sites for accuracy,
currency, authority etc. and this is just what I do every time I have a
class in to begin research. I think we also need to direct them to any
subscription databases that our schools may have and encourage them to use
them and explain to them why they can be better than searching on the web by
themselves. We also need to teach them how to make lists of keywords and
make sure they have them before they even sit down at the computer. This has
been my approach and I still find it frustrating that they will often spend
a lot of time in fruitless research before they ask for help.

Juliann T. Moskowitz
Library Media Specialist
KidsConnect Volunteer
New Fairfield Middle School
New Fairfield CT 06812
juliann14@hotmail.com (home)
jmoskowitz@new-fairfield.k12.ct.us (work)

"The tax which will be paid for education is not more than the thousand part
of what will be paid if we leave the people in ignorance."   Thomas
Jefferson


>From: carlton martz <cmartz@EEE.ORG>
>Reply-To: carlton martz <cmartz@EEE.ORG>
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: GEN: Teens: Internet Over Library
>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:11:23 -0800
>
>The highly respected Pew polling research organization has
>a very entensive report on teens and the Internet:
>Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant-Message
>Generation.  A small part of this report concerns teen use
>of the Internet for school purposes.  The Pew report found
>that 71% of "online teens" rely mostly on Internet sources
>rather than the library for their school research projects.
>(See section: Research Papers and Projects-From Dewey Decimal
>to Dot-Com).  Another finding was that online teens are
>becoming intuitively more sophisticated in selecting Internet
>sources since students realize that anyone may post almost
>anything on the Internet (See section: Learning Which Information
>to Trust).
>www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=36
>
>My question to the school library community is:  How should we
>respond to the now documented fact that increasing numbers of
>students rely more on their own access to Internet resources
>than to school library resources and library media teachers
>to guide them in their research efforts?
>
>Carl Martz
>Retired, Past Pres. of Calif. School Lib. Assn.--Southern Section
>cmartz@eee.org
>
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