What follows is 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? The first 3.....not the last one!
Which method in the graph above do you depend on most? Searching GoogleScholar
Post a message in the Activity 4 forum, and compare your position with the positions of others in your group. Aim in your group to decide the following:
How does your group compare with the data in the graph?
How does your group compare with the statements on pages 18–20?
You are very welcome to read the messages in the other tutorial forums, for this or any other activity. But, by convention, students don’t actually send messages to the forums of other groups.
Now read pages 12–24, which make up the complete section about the Google Generation. What are the implications for your own work with learners? There wasn't really any surprises here. My learners are paper based and don't really need to do internet searching other than for curriculum guidance and this is provided for them. My kids do struggle with the wording in their searches...like the article stated they seem to assume the search engine knows what they're after. Not sure why they haven't been taught how to use a search engine correctly....perhaps they have but have forgotten!!
Interpret ‘learners’ as broadly as you like to make it relevant to your professional or personal context, including friends or members of your family if applicable.
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