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Digital Investigator Training Digital DIF Investigator Applying the Digital Information Fluency (DIF) Process Digital Investigator Training is a way for middle and high school students to learn valuable digital information fluency skills. Educators interested in the teacher's guides should contact us at: 21cif@imsa.edu Start Here (materials open in a new window.) In this training course you will learn to: Power Search for Digital Resources Evaluate Digital Materials Use Digital Materials in an Ethical Manner

Resource kit with materials about evaluation of web 2.0 content. A building block for information fluency: knowing how to evaluate digital resources.

How do feel about Wikipedia? This brilliant article from Doug Johnson.

Search game, find Kermit's picture. Here's a way to teach essential search skills is a game environment. Great for a lab class activity.

Teaching digital literacy, information literacy, citizenship literacy via journalism lessons and resources for 7-12 grade students. I like the combination of writing journalism with the deep thinking skills needed for information fluency.

A simple online game to teach students how to check the accuracy of digital information.

Self-paced training module on Accuracy and Fact Checking. This is a free online module designed to promote fact checking. Our research has found that students resist the idea of looking beyond the surface. They need to be specifically taught how to verify facts.

Free resources for teaching and learning critical 21st century skills.

What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 

One school districts work aligning information fluency with the new Common Core Learning Standards.   Lots of work done here.  Are you facing a similar project?  

This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find!