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, 21 st 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
Sociologists’ Classifications Baby-Boomer ( ) Digital Immigrants Generation X ( ) Digital Adaptives Millennial or Generation Y ( ) Digital Natives Generation Z (Since 2002)
Generation X 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) 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) No memory of the War on Terror No concept of life without ubiquitous information technology
Top Ten List Information Literacy Instruction discussion list What are the top ten things high school seniors should know about college libraries?
Top Ten List Article databases & library catalogs Talk to librarians Subject headings Know the difference between academic journals and popular magazines How to avoid plagiarism
Top Ten List 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