Search Reflection sheet
1. Take some time to think about your topic. Now write down what you know about it.
My understanding of Information Literacy has expanded since I started this subject. I still believe in everything I said on my first survey but I now have an awareness of its place in tertiary education. I guess I would have expected that if you have done well enough in the past to gain entry into a university course then you would already be information literate. Maybe some mature age students, like me, may have trouble with computer literacy and information literacy in the technology arena, but overall I would expect tertiary students to be information literate and capable of self directed learning.
My research has led me to discover that this is not the case and that universities are finding themselves in the position of needing to provide information literacy instruction and programs for students. They are finding that the ‘Google Generation’ have excellent technical user skills but not necessarily the ability to understand what they are viewing. I found this very surprising. Clearly schools need to be ensuring that they are incorporating IL into their instruction if they are going to create lifelong learners.
2. How interested are you in this topic? Circle the answer that best matches your interest.
Not at all not much quite a bit a great deal
3. How much do you know about this topic? Nothing not much quite a bit a great deal
4. When you do research, what do you generally find easy to do?
I still find researching fun and engaging, although I have had serious problems with it in one of my subjects – an eventuality I hadn’t counted on. I am expanding my skills: using OR more, instead of just AND; using Google Scholar more frequently.
5. When you do research, what do you generally find difficult to do?
My answer to this question really hasn’t changed. I still find it hard to know when I have enough and can stop, although I am getting better at evaluating as I go.
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