The new technology explosion requires that media audiences learn and
maintain new skills for information literacy so they can find, filter,
evaluate, and use information.
In the new issue of The Convergence Newsletter, Alex Gorelik and Anton Bezuglov of Benedict
College report on their experiment to determine how students seek and
evaluate information. Their pilot study used T.D. Wilson's framework of
information-seeking behavior to record students' choices as they searched for the answer to a question. Gorelik and Bezuglov found
that students' impatience to find a clear answer can trump even their
knowledge that a single information source may be suspect. Read the article, then visit the newsletter's Facebook and Google+ pages.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
November 2012: How students seek information in the age of convergence
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