Reading Report #5

In this article, the writer talks about how our generation uses the web and technology to learn now more than ever. They make a very good point by pointing out the most used sources of gathering information for research paper which is Google and Wikipedia. These are often being used instead of scholarly articles. The ways schools are starting to get rid of the idea the google is the best place is by teaching students how to use the schools databases which hold good reliable scholarly information. Which is exactly what we are doing in this class. In is a very good idea in my opinion because I never knew about it till I was taught and now I use it allot since it has allot of good information and is easy to use. It is good that schools are taking notice and helping the cause by hiring people to teach students about information literacy. Overall, I think schools have come a long way in understanding how we use the Internet for research and how to better help us find good information. I do not agree with the people who are stated in the Cult Following part of the article that say schools are going about this wrong making it too much like a "code of law". I think no matter what students are going to have originality and it is very important for us to know how to get reliable information and no matter what, we will still use search engines such as Google since it is part of our nature. Google is most peoples home page when they log onto the net and still has a variety of easy to find and reliable sites. We know will just be able to have both resources to use. I do agree with Boolean operators become more and more obsolete, but I think it is still important to know and understand until the day they are totally obsolete. Lastly, I don't think that standardized tests will help show how competent a student is in information literacy, and it is just important to teach us that these things are out there.