[game_preservation] Encarta dies

[Devin Monnens]

Aye. That's why one of the best things I got from my university was a
lifetime membership to the library with graduate benefits! This means full
access to scholarly databases, electronic books, and (when they get it) the
Google Books collection! I have trouble imagining life without this...

I don't ever recall having a seminar on how to do research - that was
drilled into our heads in high school, and then the bit about 'reliable
sources' in college (at least I think that's where I learned it...).

-Devin

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue
<donahrm at gmail.com>wrote:


> My "College Writing Seminar" included a component on finding and evaluating

> sources, though it could have been more in depth. Hopefully they've updated

> it to reflect how much more we rely on the web these days! Even my master's

> program, I am sad to say, lacked a required research methods course, which

> is a shame (at least, since it's a library program, we had the concepts

> spread throughout the courses).. I agree that it's really important to

> integrate it into students' education.

>

> Though we're not 100% lazy -- we'll use the scholarly databases, too, as

> long as they provide full text!

>

>  Google and Wikipedia also produce big problems in research. Students today

>> get all of their information from these places without being taught how to

>> differentiate between a reliable source and an unreliable source. I feel

>> this has more to do with the teachers failing to understand how to use

>> these resources and teachers also failing to teach their students how to

>> look for resources even 'the old-fashioned way' (or perhaps the students

>> either

>> aren't being taught this or they just don't care). I wonder if we just

>> need to have a class that teaches students how to do research at a college

>> level using modern technology and make that required. Not that I'd be very

>> interested in teaching a bunch of freshmen that... But I could probably

>> outline one.

>>

>> -Devin

>>

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