1. Trip Tic to GPS (gather, plagiarize, “so what”?):
Navigating in the “Information Google Can’t Provide World”

2. Project Information Literacy
Are our students ready for college?
Project Information Literacy
FINDING CONTEXT:
What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age
So far, we have found that no matter where students are enrolled, no matter what information resources they may have at their disposal, and no matter how much time they have, the abundance of information technology and the proliferation of digital information resources make conducting research uniquely paradoxical: Research seems to be far more difficult to conduct in the digital age than it did in previous times.
Head, Allison J., PhD, and Michael B. Eisenberg, PhD. FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age. Project Information Literacy. Information School, University of  Washington, Web. 22 Dec <FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age>.

3. Challenges to Researching in the Digital Age Students Surveyed
Research Problem
84%
Getting Started
66%
Defining a topic
62%
Narrowing it down
61%
Filtering through irrelevant results
Compare that to (CAI) Plagiarism statistics: %
% (HS Students)
% (college students)
Jospehson Instituteof Ethics, 2004 national survey: 62% (HS students)

5. Our World

7. Teen Internet Truisms Wikipedia is king Google is awesome
Want news? Go online
Social networking is good for homework
IM> / is so yesterday – it’s for old people and teachers
If it’s not on the front page, it probably isn’t worthwhile anyway
“Good enough” is good enough
Free is good
Downloading is OK as long as you’re not selling it
I get scared sometimes, but I can take care of myself
Do any of these statements sound familiar to you?

8. New Literacies Technology Literacy Information Literacy
Media Creativity
Global Literacy
Literacy with Responsibility

9. NO Responsible Use Plagiarism Cheating Downloading illegally
Sharing files illegally
Center for Academic Integrity NO

10. What’s the Biggest Learning Gap for College Freshmen?
Finding information!
Finding books: classification and catalogs
Going beyond Google and Wikipedia
Determining the best kinds of sources
Knowing different types of sources: scholarly/peer-reviewed journals, primary sources, article vs. journal
How to choose a database (what IS a database?)
Use of key words
How to cite correctly and avoid plagiarism
And some are just scared about libraries
The issue is often quality, not quantity

11. Critical Use Requires Information Literacy
A E I O U
ccess
valuate
ntegrate
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12. What Compass Can I provide?
Library Wiki
Collaborative Lesson Planning with the classroom teacher

13. California State University Long Beach Works Cited:
Some of the information in this presentation is loosely adapted with permission from
Dr. Lesley Farmer
California State University Long Beach
Works Cited:
Head, Allison J., PhD, and Michael B. Eisenberg, PhD. FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s
College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age.  Project Information
Literacy. Information School, University of  Washington, Web. 22 Dec
<FINDING CONTEXT: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the
Digital Age>.
Thank you.
Questions or Concerns:
LaDawna Harrington, MLS
Millburn High School Library