Week 1 Activity 4: Generations of information seekers
by https://learn2.open.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/1280125/mod_resource/content/1/UCL_Reading_research.pdf What follows starts with a quick exercise to focus your thinking about the Google Generation. Below are four statements about that generation. Two statements have been described as myths by the authors of the study from which the graph is taken: please try to identify those two statements. And, in your view, how accurate are each of the other statements? ‘They [the Google Generation] need to feel constantly connected to the web’ ‘They are the “cut-and-paste” generation’ ‘They pick up computer skills by trial and error’ ‘They are expert searchers’ Which of Statements 1–4 above, if any, apply to you? I think that in some way most of these statements could apply to me, although to varying degrees. I’m pretty much a daily user of the web through both my work, my study and my home life. I definitely pick up computer skills by trial and error and I …
