There are a number of statements bandied around the Internet about the Google Generation. Some of these include:
- ‘They [the Google Generation] need to feel constantly connected to the web’
- ‘They are the “cut-and-paste” generation’
- ‘They pick up computer skills by trial and error’
- ‘They are expert searchers’
Research has shed some light onto these statements. A report from UCL 1 p19 suggests that of these statements:
- UCL (2008) Information behaviour of the researcher of the future, University College London, (online) Available from: http://learn.open.ac.uk/file.php/7325/block1/UCL_Reading_research.pdf (Accessed 6 February 2011). ↩