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From friending to research: Using Facebook as a teaching tool

2011; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 72; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/crln.72.1.8493

2150-6698

Anne Pemberton,

Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Ihave been a librarian for more than ten years, and, as Matthew McConaughey’s character in “Dazed and Confused” says, “I get older and they [our students] stay the same age.” The further away from our students’ age I get, the less I feel like I am able to connect to them and connect information literacy concepts to them in the ways I could when I was first teaching. I first noticed this when my comparison of subject headings to phone book headings brought glazed looks to the eyes of every student in the classroom. It dawned on me that many of them have never seen or used a phone book. When Facebook launched in 2004, I, like many librarians, thought it would revolutionize the way I communicated with and related to students. I saw possibilities for promotion and outreach and quickly created a Facebook profile in hopes that students would be drawn to my smiling profile picture and would respond in droves to my offers of research help in my “information” section.