Kids need to learn a lot, but they can teach us a lot too.

The information and communication revolution wrought by the internet is, among other things, a generational divider. While one generation bemoans the threat of the internet to newspapers and books, a new generation — the one I teach — appears to do the vast majority of its reading online. It is of course not all a matter of the younger generation having aptitudes for a new environment we old people resist adapting to. There is as much lost as is gained. (One of these days I’ll explore the loss I’ve noticed in researching skills, the ability to ferret out information that is not easily accessible or even immediately recognizable as important.)

But there is so much that is of great use in the new environment that too many of my contemporaries (and, also, too many of my students) don’t take advantage of. Social Media Law Student is a terrific site for helping us all find and learn how to use new tools. It’s run and written by law students. Yana Siganur writes today’s lead article, in which she takes the opportunity “to remind everyone of the efficiency that is Google” in a well-written and concise guide to a number of tools available from Google that can our professional lives easier.