5/6/13 Reflection on Project Information Literacy

Post date: May 13, 2013 2:34:41 PM

Project Information Literacy. "Project Information Literacy: A large-scale study about early adults and their research habits." Project Information Literacy: A large-scale study about early adults and their research habits. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2013. <http://projectinfolit.org/>.

Project Information Literacy is about answers. We’re all going to school for 2+ years for a degree, but do we know what we are getting into? By we, I am speaking as a college student. We don’t know what the job market will be like when we get out of school, and we don’t even always know if what we’re learning will actually pertain to the job we will be doing. Project Information Literacy is making sure that we are being taught the right research skills to help us integrate into the “real world” that awaits us. They’ve already found that students in this generation are very fast at figuring out how to work new electronics and programs, but they’ve become the first thing we look to now. One of the videos, "Major Findings: PIL's Day after Graduation Study", says that new graduates do not realize they have other resources than Google searches that could even be quicker. They don’t have phone skills; they forget that they can ask co-workers if they know the answer. Project Information Literacy is going to have a large impact on the way we view our degrees and the way we are taught before receiving them. If the results get ignored, then we run in danger of sending students out for the world completely unprepared. Instead of setting them up for success, colleges will be raising their expectations and then setting them up for failure. These results are going to come out soon, and they are going to make an impact.