Technology And The College Generation By Kohowich Summary

Information and technological literacy have really grown in the last ten years. But with technology making life easier why do people oppose the easier life? Technology and the College Generation by Courtney Rubin, published on September 27, 2013 by The New York Times, is basically about how student find email useless and boring and when they are forced to use it, they never do, but when they have a choice of what method they want to be contacted, most usually choose Email, and they check it daily (Rubin). What Students Don’t Know by Steven Kolowich published on August 22, 2011 is mainly about why students don’t use the library as much to find good research. Kolowich goes on by saying that student don’t really know that librarians are there

A student’s time is usually very valuable with everything that they do, from having five to seven classes and maybe a job; student plan their whole week out. For me with my classes and job there is only about 2 hours to do my school work and with 40 min per class. If I need to do research I just hop on google and type in exactly what I need and it pops up. I only spent about 5 mins doing research in the comfort of my own home eating a sandwich instead of probably the whole 2 hours inside a library where you can’t even eat. I used the technology given to me by the evolution of science are teachers against the growth of technology, because if they are they shouldn’t be teachers. Professors need to understand that they need to let student do what they have to do to finish the assignment. Kolowich writes that even though student have a poor information literacy skills, many of those students have continued to pass their courses and eventually graduate (Kolowich). This means that student know what they are doing when they work efficiently by using the internet instead of the