Double Entry Journal #15 Deconstructing Digital Natives: Chapter 8 Beyond Google and The "Satisficing" Searching of Digital Natives. 1. What is the purpose of this chapter? To explore why students who are famililiar and adept with Internet tools are at times poor at using Internet academically. 2. What is the major finding from a review of studies that have looked at technology adoption of young people?. Does this finding seem to reflect your own use of technology? On the basis of the review, they aligned students "satisficing" information-seeking behavior and attitudes with a well established educational construct: a surface approach to learning. Sometimes I feel that I use a surface approach to learning, especially if I am not interested in the material being taught. If I am truly interested in the material and information being taught, I will dig deeper to find out more about the topic than just a surface approach. 3. How do the authors define Information Literacy? The authors define Information Literacy as a set of skills and knowledge that allow us to find, evaluate, and use the information that we need, as well as to filter out the information that we don't need. 4. What is the "clear message" from a review of the studies focused on college students information seeking behavior? Do these findings relfect your own information seeking behaviors? Rowlands and his colleagues found that 89 percent of college students use a search engine to begin their scholarly information seeking and only 2 percent use the library website. I would have to agree that I also use the internet to search a topic first and follow the "skimming" practice to determine if I think the website is valid and if it will be helpful to me. 5. What does the term "satisfcing" in the area of decision making mean? The term "satisficing" describes the decisions that individuals take that are satisfactory but not maximal or optimal, in other words acceptable based on personal criterion but not always the best choice. 6. What are the differences to deep and surface level approaches to a learning task? Students who adopted a deep level approach to learning focused on comprehension of the meaning behind the material. Students who adopted a surface level approach to learning tended to focus on reproduction of what was contained within the learning material without concern for understanding. 7. What should educators aim to do to improve the scripts student have for sophisticated online information seeking? Educators should encourage a deep level approach to information seeking because they are associated with greater conceptual understanding of the material that is presented. 8. Why is Google's page rank system problematic for information seeking? Because students can become frustrated with the functionality and ease of use of online academic tools and services, which will result in heavy use of familiar tools known to produce results, and the quality of these sources can also be questioned. 9. Are you "digitally wise" when it comes to information seeking? Give an example of how you approached an information seeking task for one of your academic courses this semester (do not include this class). No, I am not "digitally wise" when it comes to information seeking because I was never taught how to search properly for academic purposes. For another class, I used Wikipedia when searching to find information because I knew I would find results fast and be able to use the information. 10. Has the popularity of the Internet and the information contained on the Web created a new problem for undergraduate students research skills? Why of Why not? Yes, because we are uninformed about how to search properly to gain the best knowledge.