Saturday, July 26, 2014

Mining PEW

Zickuhr, K. (2013, November 4). Reading, writing, and research in the digital age. Pew Research Centers Internet American Life Project RSS. Retrieved July 26, 2014, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/11/04/reading-writing-and-research-in-the-digital-age/

Reading, Writing and Research in the Digital Age

"The internet makes doing research easier- easier to do well and easier to do poorly."

I thought this was a very striking quote from the presentation. It brings up the point that even though information may be more accessible, students still need instruction in properly finding and accessing information.

As far as changes go with reading in the digital age, I was pleased to see that while in many situations such as travel and in bed, people prefer an e-book, but 81% of people still prefer print when reading to a child. I feel the same way. My children have e-books on the ipads, but those are for during the day. At night before bed, we read print books. It even worries me that they don't see me reading because I read on my ipad. They can't tell the difference between me playing a game, emailing or reading.





I also thought this break down of social networking was interesting. On first look, I was surprised that the highest use wasn't the 12- 17 age group, but then I considered that 18- 29 age group was the first teen group exposed to social media and they are carrying it into their 20's and into their jobs. In another 10 years, the number for the 30's will probably be higher as this group gets older. 





28 pages (slides) towards the Mining PEW

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