Reading Responce #2

Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody

Reading #2
Foster, Andrea L. “Information Navigation 101” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 53. Issue 27(2007): pA 38-A40.

This article informed me about how college students use the Internet for their academic purposes. Although in today’s society almost all college students use the Internet many of them are not aware of how to use sources that are academically appropriate, good sources, and are good sources for their research. With that fact being known many some students papers, research, and/or arguments for class aren’t the best quality they could be. I personally didn’t know at first that Wikipedia was a HORRIBLE source. Maybe horrible is the wrong word but it isn’t very accurate because any person can go in an edit the source and it can be saved.
They also talk about how they plan to have new programs to teach undergraduates how to use extremely necessary programs such as the online card catalog, and even less complex things such as the Internet. The Internet is although more complex then we all thought. Actually deciphering what is good information can be challenging. In the article they talk about how most college students are using technology on a very constant basis socially and recreationally the amount of technology used for academics is at a startling lesser number. Sending text messages to friends, updating your MySpace, being completely up to date on all your friends through Facebook, or even making a playlist for your iPod is using technology. Most college students are able to do all of those tasks almost without thinking. Sadly they are able to complete those tasks efficiently but when it comes to getting research for their school project students are relying on Google, and Wikipedia which I earlier mentioned are not very adequate sources.