Are you information savvy?

A British study conducted by the Joint Information Systems Committee found that the Google Generation (those born after 1993) may be computer literate but not necessarily information savvy. Here are the key highlights of the report:

• Young people don’t develop good search strategies to find quality information.
• They might find information on the Internet quickly, but they don’t know how to evaluate the quality of what they find.
• They don’t understand what the Internet really is: a vast network with many different content providers.

Visit here http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf for the full report.