Transcript Who-Are-Our-Students

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
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http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/
Sociologists’ Classifications
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Baby-Boomer (1946-1964)
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Generation X (1965-1976)
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Millennial or Generation Y (1977-2002)
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Generation Z (Since 2002)
• Digital Immigrants
• Digital Adaptives
• Digital Natives
Generation X
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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)
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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)
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No memory of the War on Terror
No concept of life without ubiquitous
information technology
Top Ten List
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Information Literacy Instruction email
discussion list
What are the top ten things high school
seniors should know about college
libraries?
Top Ten List
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Article databases & library catalogs
Talk to librarians
Subject headings
Know the difference between academic
journals and popular magazines
How to avoid plagiarism
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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