Week 8- Article 1

Article 1- The first article I have chosen to look at focuses on the 'google generation'. Some of the major disagreements I have with this article is the generalisation that everyone born after 1993 belongs to the google generation, a generation dominated by the Internet. The authors of this article claim that young people turn to the Internet( search engines) for first port of call instead of libraries. Well to an extent I would say this could be true of some young students, however I think the library still plays a very important part in learning. The trouble with search engines is that often they produce lists of endless irrelevant pages, often with subject matter that has no match to what you were actually searching for.

The article presents the idea that the "google generation" no longer are able to evaluate a source adequately for relevant information. However I do not think this is the case, as I already mentioned search engines tend to produce lists of websites that are not relevant to the search, surely this is evaluating a source for relevance by looking at each website and establishing that is it not usable!

The article also gives the impression that young people's academic learning skills are not developing the same as older generations. "Young scholars are using tools that require little skill", well this is simply not the case if anything the "google generation" are having to develop new learning skills in order to keep up with the rapid change in technology. The assumption that everyone born in the digital age is already imprinted with the knowledge and must be able to use new technology and understand it without being shown how to is exactly that, an assumption.