Teaching Generation M : a handbook for librarians and educators

Working with and devising quality educational resources for "Generation M"--today's group of teens and young adults born in the early 1980s through the mid 1990s--can be a challenge. You'll find a comprehensive introduction and overview of Gen M, including key term definitions, background information, and a clear idea of the scope of issues facing educators charged with teaching and working with this age group. The authors cover popular online tools like Facebook Wikipedia, YouTube, and Google, many of which play a large role in Gen M information retrieval, and also address key educational theories and provide instruction for creating lessons and learning objects that can be used in both traditional and online educational environments. Examples of current best practices are provided, along with corresponding instruction for designing and implementing them in your library or classroom.

The haves and the have-nots : class, race, gender, access to computers, and academic success / Colleen S. Harris -- Driving fast to nowhere on the information highway : a look at shifting paradigms of literacy in the twenty-first century / Patricia H. Dawson and Diane K. Campbell -- Expanding our literacy toolbox : the case for media literacy / Susan Avery -- Gen M and the information search process / Art Taylor -- Gen M : whose kids are they anyway? / Michele Kathleen D'Angelo -- The wired life : the public and private spheres of the Gen M community / Karen J. Klapperstuck and Amy J. Kearns -- Face-to-face on Facebook : students are there-- should we be? / Laurie M. Bridges -- YouTube and YouTube-iness : educating Gen M through the use of online video / Katie Elson Anderson -- Google and Wikipedia : friends or foes? / Jeffrey Knapp -- It's not about the game / Nicholas Schiller and Carole Svensson -- Comics go digital : the rise of webcomics / Tyler Rousseau -- The emerging Gen M ecology : what will their world look like? / Stephen Abram -- Gen M(obile) : learning applications for mobile technology in higher education / Boris Vilic and Robert J. Lackie -- Technology and pedagogy : the best of both for Gen M students / Lauren Pressley -- Teaching Gen M through cooperative learning / Sharon L, Morrison and Susan L. Webb -- Screencasting : extending your educational environment / Steve Garwood -- How I learned to stop worrying and love Google and Wikipedia : two classroom exercises and some musings and trends / Mitch Fontenot -- Teaching information ethics : the guided research paper / Joseph F. Joiner -- Information literacy vs. computer literacy : the first year experience as a teaching tool / Beth Larkee.