I must disagree with Anna Cherry's comment that having a password
with out training will demonstrate to students that CALR does not
always save time or give better answers.
My experience is that students don't care if it takes longer on
the computer. They are happy to sit and stare at a screen for
hours rather than have to get up and find a book. They also
assume that if they were not able to find it on the computer,
then it must not exist.
Rather than showing them that computers aren't always the best
research method, having an ID will give them a false sense of
security that they REALLY understand how the computer works
because they were able to figure it out for themselves. The
whole law school experience encourages students to be independent,
If you don't know the answer by all means make something up,
but NEVER admit that that you don't know what you are doing!
I can't actually prove this scientifically, it's just a gut
feeling.
Heather Braithwaite Simmons
Wayne State University Law Library
hsimmon@cms.cc.wayne.edu
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