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Mastering Digital Information Fluency: Effective Searching and Evaluation Techniques

In today's digital age, information is abundant, doubling every 72 hours. Understanding how to effectively search for and evaluate information is crucial. This resource, inspired by Cameron McKinley's insights and Bernajean Porter's AETC presentation, explores topics such as targeted searching, fact versus fiction, and using tools to evaluate online sources. Learn about the importance of effective queries and strategies for staying safe online while conducting research. Equip yourself with the skills to navigate the information overload and make informed decisions.

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Mastering Digital Information Fluency: Effective Searching and Evaluation Techniques

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  1. Digital Information Fluency Cameron McKinley

  2. Topics • Power Searching • Evaluating • Safety

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  7. Bernajean Porter…from Digitales presentation at AETC • By 2010 information will double every 72 hours. • 75 % of what we know was not there 25 years ago

  8. How Big is an Exabyte? 5 Exabytes = 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress collections! Source: Many of these examples were taken from Roy Williams ?Data Powers of Ten? web page at Caltech.

  9. Searching

  10. Information LiteracyDistinguish fact from fictionDo targeted searches

  11. Who owns site? http://www.easywhois.com/

  12. Who owns site? Site Owner Date Modified

  13. Use Country Codes

  14. Keyword Challengehttp://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/Q2Q/KeywordChallenge.swf

  15. Digital Investigator Traininghttp://21cif.imsa.edu/resources/lapackage

  16. Kermit the Frog Search Challengehttp://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/SC001/SC_002.swf

  17. Kermit the Frog Answerhttp://www.southampton.liu.edu/news/commence/1996/kermit.htm

  18. Learn Effective Searching

  19. Using Databases

  20. AVLhttp://www.avl.lib.al.us/ Mckinley shxnxkff

  21. Original Documents Onlinehttp://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone

  22. Tools to help you

  23. Evaluating

  24. Research Findings (gifted, second-semester high school sophomores) • 36% recognized the optimal query from a list of three queries (about the same as guessing). By contrast, 14% of incoming freshmen at a local high school were able to select the optimal query. • 31% grasped that search engines perform literal matching. • 17% regularly use natural language queries. • 12% misinterpreted the research question by substituting different search concepts.

  25. Photo Filter-Free Program

  26. Anyone can speak on the web

  27. E-mail Hoaxes

  28. Photoshttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/photos.html

  29. Lincoln Photo Hoaxhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/02calhoun.html

  30. Hoax Photo Testhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html

  31. Martin Luther King-Google Search

  32. Wikipedia

  33. More Reliable Wikipedia-Citizendiumhttp://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page

  34. Nobel Prize.org http://nobelprize.org/

  35. Links all point to this site

  36. Stormfront

  37. Web Eval Formhttp://www.cyberbee.com/content.pdf

  38. http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/sitepurpose_quiz.html

  39. Evaluation Wizard-Authorhttp://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/evaluate/

  40. Site

  41. Links From

  42. Links To

  43. Print Sources

  44. Date

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