I've Got Google, Why Do I Need You?

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ppl_ri_images/4019951418/ Ida Aalen I’ve Got Google, Why Do I EMTACL10 Need You? A Student’s April 28th

I’ve Got Google, Why Do I Need You? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cellphonesusie/2099769335/

I’m not your typical student http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/m00by/2538932794/

I’m a paperless student

Studying is a whole lot more than reading http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ivt-ntnu/4448745162/

Studying is a whole lot more than reading http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ivt-ntnu/4183861261/

Studying is a whole lot more than reading http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dakima-arts/3497370475/

Why study with pen and paper instead of using a computer?

Learnability and usability http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/denn/146887708/

Flexibility and non-linearity http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/illustrious/49005083/

Distraction http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/isla_yelo/2412920479/

Why did I go digital?

I can type while I read http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/greenchameleon/1083252106/

The software got better http://www.evernote.com/about/learn_more/

..and my self-discipline got a little help http://www.rescuetime.com/tour

But do these tools make me a better student? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/vox/4398623044/

I get searchable notes http://docs.google.com/

..that I can quote from http://docs.google.com

My ﬂashcards work. http://quizlet.com

And we’re actually able to collaborate Text

..and I save money. http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/iboy/3611341689/

Do Google and Wikipedia make a better student?

I gave up this.. http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/stdsearch

..for Google. http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&as_sdt=2000

This is internet, computer stone-age..

...are we cavemen to the digital natives? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/aperturismo/4491368760/

Screentime does not make you competent! http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/69805768@N00/3292899689/

The Internet is not a place!

Are we lazy, or maybe just stupid?

Nobody wants to stay a beginner

People don’t like to be incompetent, and beginners, by deﬁnition, are incompetent. Conversely, learning and improving is rewarding, so beginners become intermediates very quickly - or they drop out altogether. Page 42 in Cooper, Reimann and Cronins “About Face 3.0”

It’s easy to forget what you don’t practice

Should librarians even teach students anything?

But how can we be able to use advanced computers if we don’t take the time and energy to let someone teach it to us?

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Computer literacy [...] is nothing more than a euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to undertsand an alien, machine logic rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people’s way of thinking. Page 27 in Cooper, Reimann and Cronins “About Face 3.0” sitat

The librarian’s logic is just as alien to me as the programmer’s logic. http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/pgoyette/100769956/

So should I adapt, or should you? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stevegarﬁeld/4511652432/

What’s the real work? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/antonioviva/4277074485/

The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, ﬁnishing the PowerPoint slides [...]. The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, ﬁxing the car at the roadside [...]. http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html

What are the excise tasks? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dukeyearlook/3811954463/

That’s a difﬁcult distinction http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/freeparking/500901676/

What is the real work a student should be doing? Googling university courses? Buying or borrowing books? Taking notes? Organizing my notes? Going to a lecture? Looking through old exams? Doing tests and writing essays?

Am I losing important skills or am I just being more efﬁcient?

Focus on goals rather than tasks http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/annarbor/4349878303/

Questions I’ve asked in my years as a student • How do I know how to quote? • I’m wondering whethere there are any good books on this subject. • I want to get an overlook over this research ﬁeld. • What do I do with these journal articles and papers?

The computer does the work and the person does the thinking http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/christchurchcitylibraries/4017407951/

Why does this matter to a library? And why should the library matter to me?

Questions? Twitter: @idaAa E-mail: aalen.ida@gmail.com

Further reading My blog: http://idaaalen.wordpress.com The Design of Everyday Things About Face 3.0

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