When I began to tackle this assignment last night around 11pm little did I know that I was going to go to bed upset and unaccomplished. After waking up this morning I knew the first thing I would discuss today in English was how I couldn't find this article. Little did I know that I was just falling into Tess's plan to prove a point. However, tonight I am not going to bed upset nor unaccomplished. I am going to bed tonight feeling like I learned a lesson.
It felt like a huge fist to the face when reading the first few paragraphs of Jill D. Jensen's article. I am very guilty of what she discussed in her article "It's the Information Age, So Where's the Information?" it's almost sickening. I have used Google as an easy escape to gather information for any research paper and have always felt like I was more intelligent than the average student. After having read this article I feel less intelligent than the average student. As a whole my generation rely's too heavily on search engines and not enough on true academic sources.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Jensen's article because she approached this topic from every point of view possible. Which was nice to not have to read a one sided article about how my generation isn't truly "computer literate". I feel like I really learned something from reading this article and the lesson proved by Tess.
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