This document discusses the importance of digital literacy skills in the 21st century. It notes that while the internet was initially read-only, the emergence of Web 2.0 allows anyone to easily create and publish online. It highlights both opportunities and risks of the internet for students, and emphasizes the need to teach critical evaluation of online information as well as safe practices. The document provides an overview of various digital tools and strategies to help organize, communicate and find information online.
3. Use of blogs, RSS, wikis, web sites and
technology in general may lead to
sleeplessness, irritability, and the horrible reality
that you’ll never being able to know it all.
Use at your own risk
20. A read-write-create web using
online software that allows
creating, publishing and
communicating in seconds
21. What are we doing today?
• Internet myths • Social networks
• Search tools • Online
evaluation &
• RSS
citation
• Organizing
• Online tools
information
40. Low web literacy skills
51% believe “most or all” of the
Web can be trusted
41. Low web literacy skills
51% believe “most or all” of the
Web can be trusted
Little sense of online “privacy”
42. Low web literacy skills
51% believe “most or all” of the
Web can be trusted
Little sense of online “privacy”
No understanding of digital
intellectual property rights
43. Low web literacy skills
51% believe “most or all” of the
Web can be trusted
Little sense of online “privacy”
No understanding of digital
intellectual property rights
Weak search and evaluation skills
51. “One of the things our
grandchildren will find quaintest
about us is that we distinguish the
digital from the real. In the future,
that will become literally
impossible.”
William Gibson
2007
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75. My Pretty Quick Turtle Left Late
Use Minus (-) & Plus (+)
Bernie Dodge/Tom March
76. My Pretty Quick Turtle Left Late
Use Minus (-) & Plus (+)
Use Quotes (keywords with
quotation marks)
Bernie Dodge/Tom March
77. My Pretty Quick Turtle Left Late
Use Minus (-) & Plus (+)
Use Quotes (keywords with
quotation marks)
Use the Title (allintitle:“world cup”)
Bernie Dodge/Tom March
78. My Pretty Quick Turtle Left Late
Use Minus (-) & Plus (+)
Use Quotes (keywords with
quotation marks)
Use the Title (allintitle:“world cup”)
Use the Link (link:www.cnn.com)
Bernie Dodge/Tom March
79. My Pretty Quick Turtle Left Late
Use Minus (-) & Plus (+)
Use Quotes (keywords with
quotation marks)
Use the Title (allintitle:“world cup”)
Use the Link (link:www.cnn.com)
Use the Like (related:www.cnn.com)
Bernie Dodge/Tom March
85. Hoaxes?
Urban Legends
•
www.snopes.com
Truth or Fiction
•
www.truthorfiction.com
86. A Short Introduction to Holocaust
Revisionism
www.ibiblio.org/team/history/
controversy/abutz/intro.html
Holocaust Hoax
www.natvan.com/national-vanguard/
assorted/hoax.html
87. United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/
online/phistories
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust:
Survivors
fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/survivor.htm
88. What about this site?
“Case Analysis of a Historic Killer
•
Tornado Event in Kansas on 10 June
1938”
www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/
•
Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html