Valerie S. Thatcher's Essay

When an entire generation grows up being surrounded by vastly improving technology that evolves to suit your needs, with fast products and easy results, they start to lose their patience to search for real answers. According to Valerie S. Thatcher, this affects the students and teachers learning and teaching in the electronic age. Since everything on the internet is found rapidly and effortlessly, often the members of the generation y don’t bother looking into the credibility of their sources, and therefore, their content. In her article, Thatcher makes an attempt to explain how to encourage students to pay attention in class and learn the traditional ways of research. Thatcher did a well-rounded job, but not a perfect job on how to confront the issue that Generation Y has with traditional research because she explains well why the generation gained a reputation a short attention span, and her format although confusing, …show more content…
Thatcher glosses over how students of the Y Generation are used to having information easily accessible, they expect to find information rapidly and don't look to see if the sources they have taken it from is trustable. “They may lack the skills to determine what information is trustworthy, however, because of the sheer volume of what is available to them through virtual media.” [Reference 1]. However, when she speaks about Generation Y, she tends to generalize that everyone born from the 90s to now has no idea what living without technology is like. It seems she absolutely despises anyone below the age of twenty-five, despite the fact that not everyone born then had access to the internet and developed the habits she mentioned. Although Thatcher does a good job of explaining why the Y Generation has developed into having bad research habits, she is too general in her