Reading Response #2

Reading Response # 2
JJ Cook
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Sept 16, 2007
Reading # 2
Foster, Andrea L. “Information Navigation 101” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 53. Issue 27(2007): pA 38-A40.
This article informed me that this generation of college students are not as tech savvy as we are made out to be. Students can manage their ipods, cruise the internet, update our facebook and my space profiles, and browse the xbox marketplace from their t.v. These our mostly recreational and social ways of using the most recent technology. It turns out that when it comes to research us college students do not know what to do. With the increasing information on the internet it is becoming harder for the students to find information, valid information at that.
There used to be only one source for students to find information and that was the library, now you have all these sources with " no definite status of authority." an example of a source with no definitie status of authority would be Wikipedia where anyone can go on the website and edit the information that will be seen. The changes that are made are saved for the public to read them.
The number of online databases has increased drastically from 10,000 to 18,000. With their being so many databases it is hard for students to decide where to look and how to find what you're looking for that is why their has been classes formed to help the students "locate and evaluate the electronic data." With students flooding in information I think it is essential that the students are taking these classes to learn how to properly find the correct information for their projects.