Teaching Generation M
Subtitle: a handbook for librarians and educators
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781555706678
Description: Explains how to engage youths born in the age of technology with library services, providing tips on how to best meet this generation's educational requirements, debunking myths, and how to integrate digital initiatives into their education.
Table of contents: title: The myths, realities, and practicalities of working with Gen M / Robert J. Lackie, John W. LeMasney, and Kathleen M. Pierce; title: The haves and the have-nots : class, race, gender, access to computers, and academic success / Colleen S. Harris; title: Driving fast to nowhere on the information highway : a look at shifting paradigms of literacy in the twenty-first century / Patricia H. Dawson and Diane K. Campbell; title: Expanding our literacy toolbox : the case for media literacy / Susan Avery; title: Gen M and the information search process / Art Taylor; title: Gen M : whose kids are they anyway? / Michele Kathleen D'Angelo; title: The wired life : the public and private spheres of the Gen M community / Karen J. Klapperstuck and Amy J. Kearns; title: Face-to-face on Facebook : students are there-- should we be? / Laurie M. Bridges; title: YouTube and YouTube-iness : educating Gen M through the use of online video / Katie Elson Anderson; title: Google and Wikipedia : friends or foes? / Jeffrey Knapp; title: It's not about the game / Nicholas Schiller and Carole Svensson; title: Comics go digital : the rise of webcomics / Tyler Rousseau; title: The emerging Gen M ecology : what will their world look like? / Stephen Abram; title: Gen M(obile) : learning applications for mobile technology in higher education / Boris Vilic and Robert J. Lackie; title: Technology and pedagogy : the best of both for Gen M students / Lauren Pressley; title: Teaching Gen M through cooperative learning / Sharon L. Morrison and Susan L. Webb; title: Screencasting : extending your educational environment / Steve Garwood; title: How I learned to stop worrying and love Google and Wikipedia : two classroom exercises and some musings and trends / Mitch Fontenot; title: Teaching information ethics : the guided research paper / Joseph F. Joiner; title: Information literacy vs. computer literacy : the first-year experience as a teaching tool / Beth Larkee