Allie Bedell
Equinox Staff
This is the Internet age and we are the generation of technology. We don’t read manuals upon picking up our new iPods and iPhones nor do we take classes to operate our computers. It’s trial and error for us, usually with much success, and yet, even though nearly all of us are technologically savvy, we are required to spend class time learning how to Google terms for our research projects and how to use Excel to create graphs.
Now, before launching an attack on these supposed “educational opportunities,” I will admit that there must certainly be students somewhere on the KSC campus who benefit from such programs, otherwise they simply would not exist (one hopes, anyway). Though most of us are aware of how to modify searches in order to provide better results, there are occasionally new things to learn and our searching abilities are therefore improved upon.
However, most of these presentations are little more than a class period wasted (not to mention one spent on Facebook for many students). Most of the required ITW and IQL classes spend at least one class period with their designated research specialists in the library, not to mention the various other classes brought in by professors who believe they will be useful. That in itself is the first problem: If these sessions are truly essential to our success at KSC and beyond, a single class should incorporate them and nothing more. A great number of students take their required ITW during their first semester at KSC. It then might be considered appropriately justified to take time away from classes to teach the methods behind researching. However, when other classes, not required, drag students to the library for such “orientation” during their second, third, and sometimes even fourth year here, the point becomes irrelevant.
Students often don’t attend such training sessions once, but have been subjected to more than a handful of such sessions, all of which repeat mostly the same sentiment. As a second semester freshman, I’ve already attended four such information sessions in the library. They are no longer informational.
Even if students were only given one such class period worth of touring the library and “learning” the magic of Google, we would still remain in the information age. Professors watch presenters in awe as they modify searches and sift through multiple databases, all of which KSC students are incredibly fortunate to have access to, but do not need education to use. It seems that our generation’s ability to utilize our technological resources has absolutely surpassed the expectations of those who came before us, and they expect that we’re on the same page as them, when in reality we’re miles ahead and have been all along.
We’ve grown up with technology. Most of us have watched it evolve. We’ve spent two decades constantly adapting to new, innovative ideas, soaking them in as they’ve occurred. We are all too familiar with the capabilities of our computers. Spending class time to learn what a viable and credible website looks like is not going to benefit our research nor make our papers any stronger; we identify these characteristics instinctively. We’ve spent our entire lives being trained to do so.
So rather than waste everyone’s time, students should be in the classrooms working with their groups or learning pertinent information about their research projects, not sitting through a session about how to find the most adequate search terms they need. Students aren’t taking these classes seriously, if they even show up in the first place. If they’re already attuned to the Internet, why would they need to be taught the basics?
Allie Bedell can be contacted at abedell@keeneequinox.com
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