This piece articulates why students need to be taught information literacy skills and be exposed to a variety of information sources on the web. "Students today write reports from information they find on the internet. They need to understand this type of new information source and the network it comes from. Students are making connections with many different kinds of people, actively looking for and soliciting different points of view. They need to develop the skill to work out just who are the experts are in the crowd and then using a "blend of personal and social information" to predict the best solution,create the best content and ask the best questions."

Video. What is PIL? Project Information Literacy is a national (US) study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age

Unquestioning reliance on automation can, and has, led to disasters. This is one of the major reasons why teacher-librarians, librarians and other information professionals need to very diligently to ensure digital information literacy skills are learnt by everyone in the community. We all need to be in control of our technologies, not allow our technologies dictate to us.

A collection put together by Robin Good. They are great resources that would help anyone trying to explain content curation.

A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

Useful chart that offers a visual guide of the process

Some simple tips that anyone could use.

There are many tools that can be used to help with the Student Learning Objectives process. This post discusses how to use Google spreadsheets to assist with the collection of data, sharing the information, and collaborating with others. There is also a link to the template the author created

Interesting article giving valid reasons for not supporting Google

Another interesting option from Google. Create a quiz or survey for your class and send them the QR code to find it. It looks simple and has a video, created by high school students, to help explain how it works

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses

Emaze might be a tool worth investigating if you are seeking to create interesting presentations

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"This post is a summary of the ideas. tips and resources shared during my presentation for the 2013 Reform Symposium e-Conference on digital curation." This is a very good explanation of what digital curation can mean in education and an exploration of some of the tools you can use.

"This post is a summary of the ideas. tips and resources shared during my presentation for the 2013 Reform Symposium e-Conference on digital curation." This is a very good explanation of what digital curation can mean in education and an exploration of some of the tools you can use.

This site offers a great annotated list of links to resources on the topics: Internet safety, cyberbullying, Digital responsibility, Media and digital literacy and other resources from Edutopia