Educause Review has a short editorial called The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.” The article seems to bounce back and forth a little between what I would call technology literacy and information literacy, but the overall points are the same; that while students coming in to higher education today are very well exposed to technology, that doesn’t necessarily make them competent in its use. There are a few quotes from the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy report that highlight the point of the article, including, “Information literacy is a survival skill in the Information Age…. Information literate people know now to find, evaluate, and use information effectively to solve a particular problem or make a decision —whether the information they select comes from a computer, a book, a government agency, a film, or any number of other possible resources.”
