Lost in Cyberspace: Where to Go? What to Believe?
Friday, 25 July 2008 - The study of Moayeri (2008) "Lost in Cyberspace: Where to Go? What to Believe?" shows that students prefer using the Web over printed text because of the speed of accessing information and the likelihood of locating up-to-date information.
Electronic search engines like Yahoo! and Ask dominate high school students’ information seeking, with Google being the number one information searching option. The paper examines the literature that focuses on students’ searching skills and ways that they are responding to an overload of information. Paradoxically, regardless of the level of Internet expertise, students are often not satisfied with search results. The paper therefore explores the techniques that students could be using to retrieve trustworthy and relevant information.
In conclusion, the Internet has several functions for students. It is their textbooks, their library, their tutor, their homework guide, their study group, their guidance councilor, their notebook, their backpack, and their locker (Levin & Arafeh, 2002). They use it as a retrieval, storage, and transportation tool. Educators have not yet adequately recognized or responded to the manner in which students access information through the Internet.
Moayeri, Maryam (2007). "Lost in Cyberspace: Where to Go? What to Believe?" Webology, 4(4), Article 47. Available at: http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/a47.html
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