http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/ Exploring Medical Librarianship and Web Geekery Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/comment-page-1/#comment-3520 Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » Do they care what they’re looking at? Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:53:24 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/#comment-3520 [...] About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and are evaluating the quality of documents given that, online, everything looks virtually the same (and even more so when you’re looking at an RSS feed through an aggregator). Although I’d wanted to respond to what they’d been discussing, I didn’t have time and filed it away in the closet of my brain. I’d more or less forgotten about it until this week on my reference shift. [...] [...] About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and are evaluating the quality of documents given that, online, everything looks virtually the same (and even more so when you’re looking at an RSS feed through an aggregator). Although I’d wanted to respond to what they’d been discussing, I didn’t have time and filed it away in the closet of my brain. I’d more or less forgotten about it until this week on my reference shift. [...]

]]> http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/comment-page-1/#comment-1733 David Rothman Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:16:04 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/#comment-1733 I think you've described the problem precisely, Paul- and I really like the metaphor of translation to one's native language. :) I think you’ve described the problem precisely, Paul- and I really like the metaphor of translation to one’s native language.

]]> http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/comment-page-1/#comment-1732 Paul R. Pival Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:52:13 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/#comment-1732 Good point on the InfoLit, David, and that makes me realize that we librarians are as much of the problem as are the students who have no frame of reference. It feels like a situation where one is learning a foreign language and needs to constantly translate into the native language before being able to comprehend what's just been said. Since I did grow up just before "it all went online", I personally think about what it was in paper before it made it online, but obviously "the kids" don't think that way. Will have to do some more thinking on how to teach (and think) across that gap... Good point on the InfoLit, David, and that makes me realize that we librarians are as much of the problem as are the students who have no frame of reference. It feels like a situation where one is learning a foreign language and needs to constantly translate into the native language before being able to comprehend what’s just been said. Since I did grow up just before “it all went online”, I personally think about what it was in paper before it made it online, but obviously “the kids” don’t think that way. Will have to do some more thinking on how to teach (and think) across that gap…

]]> http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » The good, the bad and the utterly hillarious Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:57:44 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/10/07/judging-authority-of-a-digitally-obtained-resource/#comment-1395 [...] There have been a lot of topics that have caught my interest lately — from the Learning 2.0 initiative at PLCMC to Paul Pival and David Rothman’s discussions of why students have a hard time distinguishing scholarly sources from those that are decidedly not (and here’s another article on that topic from Educause). Since I don’t have time to go into any real depth right now on any of these topics, I figured I could at least point you to the articles and blog posts that I’ve found interesting lately in the hopes that you will get something useful out of them. [...] [...] There have been a lot of topics that have caught my interest lately — from the Learning 2.0 initiative at PLCMC to Paul Pival and David Rothman’s discussions of why students have a hard time distinguishing scholarly sources from those that are decidedly not (and here’s another article on that topic from Educause). Since I don’t have time to go into any real depth right now on any of these topics, I figured I could at least point you to the articles and blog posts that I’ve found interesting lately in the hopes that you will get something useful out of them. [...]

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