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Mizael and Amber are two CSULB students who are new to the whole research thing. Follow along with them as they learn how to find, evaluate, and use information for their assignments. SURF is designed to teach you about researching by actually having you do research. We want you use current projects you are working on now.

Mizael and Amber are two CSULB students who are new to the whole research thing. Follow along with them as they learn how to find, evaluate, and use information for their assignments. SURF is designed to teach you about researching by actually having you do research.

from Library Voice blog

Digital Literacy is... Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using digital technology. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that.

A very well done site. Although I am left wondering why they call it "digital" literacy when it is mainly about scholarship and academic levels of literacy in a world that happens to be networked.

from: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. A great case study on the need to evaluate your sources (and to take ANYTHING a politician says with a grain of salt)!

Debunking myths is problematic. Unless great care is taken, any effort to debunk misinformation can inadvertently reinforce the very myths one seeks to correct. To avoid these "backfire effects", an effective debunking requires three major elements.

brief and effectively written (with lots of helpful graphics) PDF article that might have use in teaching information literacy and evaluation concepts/skills.

La Trobe U. Toolkit gives adaptable resources and support to diagnose, teach and evaluate learning related to critical information skills. Includes examples of practice from faculty.

This paper will examine various definitions of learning objects, along with important characteristics. The paper will discuss applications of instructional design, learning styles and how learning objects can help address them. Both evaluation and assessment of learning objects are examined, and finally an application of learning objects to online information literacy instruction.

post from Journeys blog dated May 2009.

by Sook Lim and Christine Simon. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 4 - 4 April 2011

Contains files to print and play SEEK!, a card game to help students improve their information literacy - in particular, the ability to construct a search strategy. Language: English

from Grammar Girl blog

Connects useful science claims to open access research articles

Lifehacker blog post, Aug 5, 2010.

Great little article that could be used as a lead into a discussion of information/web evaluation issues. For example, poll students on the 3 "everyone knows" questions and then delve into why "popular" knowledge/assumptions can be wrong and how the information in this article might be checked as well.

interactively highlights parts of an article and discusses what they are.

Paper presented to the National Resource Center Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience. Feb. 16, 2010, Denver, CO. By Andrew D. Asher & Lynda M. Duke

Some good ideas in here for how to help students make critical sense of Wikipedia.

Ways to teach students about Wikipedia

Michigan Academician, Wntr, 2009 by Sara D. Miller (via BNET)

Good ammunition to present to faculty for designing research assignments that allow students to choose their own paper topics

post from Ch-Ch-Ch Changing Librarian on an instruction session she did