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Information Literacy and the Google Generation: Teaching Research Skills to Sixth-Formers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2013

Ian Hunter
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Abstract

There is a perception in the legal information profession that levels of information literacy among law students and trainee solicitors are lower than they should be. In this article Ian Hunter considers if this starts at sixth form level and discusses the Google generation stereotype. Training sessions given to sixth-form students by the author are described and the students' levels of information literacy are considered against various information literacy standards. The suitability of these standards for sixth form students is assessed and suggestions for future information literacy training at school, HE and trainee solicitor level are discussed.

Keywords

information literacy standardsGoogle generationlaw studentstrainee solicitorssixth-formlegal research
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 107 - 111
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

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