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Peg Dryden

College students stumped by search engines, research finds | The Lookout - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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    "The members of the generation that is sometimes dubbed the "millennials" are alternately reviled or lauded by the news media for their tech-savvy, gadget-loving ways. But a new ethnographic research project on students in five Illinois universities may put a dent in that reputation. It found that many college kids don't even know how to perform a simple internet search. "
Peg Dryden

Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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    This article helps to explain the average searchers approach to Internet research. I disagree however, with his comment about not using the advanced search. As educators we should be teaching the advanced search and its benefits as well as, using it-- not waiting for the basic search to "be improved".
Peg Dryden

BBC News - British Library makes Google search deal - 0 views

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    For the history department, there may be some great primary documents in this collection - available for free!
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