Our work here is done....UK Summon Information Literacy Nov 2015 QMUL

….or is it?

But…..

“……nobody except librarians want to search, everyone else just

wants to find”

• Digital Natives

• IT skills = IL skills

• Evaluating information

• New student skills

Digital Natives are different

IT skills = IL skills

The Internet is like a…….

“Giant sweetshop, in which we behave like children,

grabbing all we can get with less regards for quality than

quantity”

Fieldhouse and Nicholas, 2008

Students do not evaluate information

New students are information literate

Academic perspective • Information overload

• Information skills

• Graduate of the future

• Potential of librarians

• Info literacy/academic literacy

• Limited view

“I didn’t quite realise how little the students knew about the Internet

until we started doing stuff together and it’s become more and more

terrifying every single year that it’s not getting better what they are

coming in with”1st year Lecturer

Our solutions

http://bit.ly/GamesMDX

Final thoughts

Adam Edwards a.edwards@mdx.ac.uk

Vanessa Hill v.hill@mdx.ac.uk

http://bit.ly/GamesMDX

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