The Truth About Girl Scouts and the Need for Digital Literacy - 1 views
SURF: Students Understanding Research Fundamentals - 0 views
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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.
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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.
The Debunking Handbook - 0 views
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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.
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brief and effectively written (with lots of helpful graphics) PDF article that might have use in teaching information literacy and evaluation concepts/skills.
Inquiry / Research Toolkit - 0 views
Learning Objects and Online Library Instruction - 0 views
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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.
Shaping Outcomes: Course Home - 0 views
Fair Use Evaluator - 0 views
Zombies: A Teachable Moment - 0 views
Cornell University - Digital Literacy Resource - 1 views
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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.
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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.
How Do You Tell If Something Is True? :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™ - 0 views
My Students Have Been Indoctrinating Me | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
SEEK! The search skills game - 0 views
Think Twice About What "Everybody Knows" - 1 views
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Lifehacker blog post, Aug 5, 2010.
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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.