| Andrea Foster notes that College students use technology constantly. They text-message friends, compile playlists for their iPods, and are whizzes at updating their MySpace profiles. But when it comes to one kind of work they are required to do in college - namely, academic research - they can be inept. These students, not surprisingly, have come to rely on easy-to-access online resources such as Google and Wikipedia as if oblivious to peer-reviewed scholarship. She further notes that The explosion of electronic information is fueling students' confusion, librarians say. |