Y-generation students fail with Google
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Genrich, Rohan, Roberts, Dave and Grist, Shelly. 2006. "Y-generation students fail with Google." Spencer, S. and Jenkins, A. (ed.) ACIS 2006: 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems: Thought, Leadership in IS. Adelaide, Australia 06 - 08 Dec 2006 Adelaide, Australia.
Paper/Presentation Title | Y-generation students fail with Google |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Genrich, Rohan (Author), Roberts, Dave (Author) and Grist, Shelly (Author) |
Editors | Spencer, S. and Jenkins, A. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2006) |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2006 |
Place of Publication | Adelaide, Australia |
ISBN | 9780975841716 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.acis2006.unisa.edu.au/ |
Conference/Event | ACIS 2006: 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems: Thought, Leadership in IS |
Event Details | ACIS 2006: 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems: Thought, Leadership in IS Event Date 06 to end of 08 Dec 2006 Event Location Adelaide, Australia |
Abstract | Just how net savvy are the Y-Generation students entering university? This study measures the perceptions of the entry level Y-Generation university students about their ability to search the Internet for familiar everyday tasks and for non-familiar academic tasks. Their ability to perform some tasks is then tested and compared with their perceptions. We found the students have confidence in their |
Keywords | y-generation; internet; search engines |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460806. Human-computer interaction |
390405. Educational technology and computing | |
460508. Information retrieval and web search | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Business |
School of Information Systems |
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