Full Description
Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information.
Contents
Chapter 1. The Digital Landscape, Scholarship, and You
Chapter 2. Your Learning in a Digital World
Chapter 3. Aladdin's Cave
Chapter 4. Wiki or Won't I?
Chapter 5. Judgement Day
Chapter 6. Finders Keepers
Chapter 7. In Too Deep
Chapter 8. It's Only Words...
Chapter 9. All Play and No Work
Chapter 10. Truth or Dare
Chapter 11. A Hidden Agenda
Chapter 12. Fact or Fiction? Negotiating New Learning Spaces
