Student Technology Use

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Student Technology Use

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World

November 1, 2012

According to a survey of teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the inte…

Project Information Literacy Research Report: “Learning Curve”

October 16, 2012

Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of today’s college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US em…

Pew Internet Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives

February 29, 2012

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their extern…

Information Literacy and IT Fluency

May 28, 2009

© 2009 Sandy Schaeffer, Michael Fry, Barbara Draude, and Gail Matthews-DeNatale. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Lice…

Student Expectations Study

July 25, 2007

These are key findings from online research and discussion evenings held in June 2007 for the Joint Information Systems Committee. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) commissioned Ips…

Faculty Integration of Technology into Instruction and Students' Perceptions of Computer Technology to Improve Student Learning

October 11, 2007

There has been a remarkable improvement in access and rate of adoption of technology in higher education. Even so, reports indicate that faculty members are not integrating technology into instr…

7 Things You Should Know About Wikipedia

June 7, 2007

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia anyone can add to or edit. A highly popular resource, Wikipedia has become a primary research tool of college students, and it may help them develop compar…

7 Things You Should Know About Facebook II

May 15, 2007

Since ELI's first brief on Facebook ( http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7017 ), the social networking site originally developed for college and university students has be…

Why Johnny Can't Search (Intelligently)

January 1, 2007

Diana G. Oblinger, Vice President of EDUCAUSE, discusses the importance of critical thinking skills and the current ways information literacy is being taught in higher education. …

Testing for Technology Literacy

January 1, 2007

"Professors, librarians, and other college officials are increasingly coming to grips with the somewhat confounding reality that despite students' affinity for IPods and their complete co…