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Diego LealReadWriteWeb - So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows http://bit.ly/c4SK5r
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Apparently, the students favor search engine rankings above all other factors. The only thing that matters is that something is the top search result, not that it's legit.
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many students trusted in rankings above all else. In fact, a quarter of the students, when assigned information-seeking tasks, said they chose a website because - and only because - it was the first search result.
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Only 10% of the students made mention of the site's author or that author's credentials while completing tasks
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none actually followed through to verify the identification or qualifications of the site's authors.
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Some students even thought that .org domain name meant a site was inherently trustworthy - they weren't aware that the .org extension can be freely registered just like .com and is not for nonprofit use only, as may have originally been intended.
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the findings showed that students are not always turning to the most relevant clues to determine the credibility of online conten
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Rob Jacklin"So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows "
digital media digital natives research informationliteracy informationfluency information_literacy google search searchengine
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Another interesting finding from the study involved the use of Wikipedia. Perhaps because of teachers' insistence over the years that the user-generated encyclopedia is not a credible source of information, only a third of the students used Wikipedia to search for answers when given particular tasks. This is a drop from earlier studies (like Raine & Tancer, 2007) which showed Wikipedia use at 46% among students.
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Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano"I Googled It"
During the study, one of the researchers asked a study participant, "What is this website?" The student answered, "Oh, I don't know. The first thing that came up." -
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