Millennials and Libraries
This was the most interesting presentation I have viewed so far. It looks into the habits and uses of teens involving technology, reading, researching and library use. The conclusions drawn from the research were:
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The only thing I found bothersome about this article was #3 "Teens reading efforts match/ exceed adult levels." This bothered me because the slide with the data which supports that students read more, shows that this is heavily due to reading for work or school. I don't think you can come to the conclusion that they are more avid readers when they are reading because they must for school work. The teens do exceed adults though in research for interest.In general, I cannot image being a "technology native." It's such an awesome benefit to this age group, but it is the responsibility of teachers, parents, librarians, and other adults involved in their lives to teach them how to balance and harness this new power.
I created an infographic to go along with this mining PEW. For the last project, I used Easel.ly because it was fairly open ended- but maybe to open ended for me. For this one, I used Infogr.am. I thought this website lent itself well the the PEWs because of the easy use of graphs and data organization (since that is the basic heart of the Internet PEW). I liked working with Infogr.am better, but I still don't feel entirely comfortable. Infographics are something that I will continue to have to play with in the future.
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