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Digital Information Fluency. Cameron McKinley. Topics. Power Searching Evaluating Safety. 2H9. 47Q93F. 8J3, D67, NVB, WS4, 2W9A, 101OL. N214, NFBC, ZYTV, GFM, 85UY, 9KIL, 4590, IL1, 77H, 84CV, DWS3, AEB4, EBRK,. Bernajean Porter…from Digitales presentation at AETC.
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Digital Information Fluency Cameron McKinley
Topics • Power Searching • Evaluating • Safety
N214, NFBC, ZYTV, GFM, 85UY, 9KIL, 4590, IL1, 77H, 84CV, DWS3, AEB4, EBRK,
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
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.
Information LiteracyDistinguish fact from fictionDo targeted searches
Who owns site? Site Owner Date Modified
Keyword Challengehttp://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/Q2Q/KeywordChallenge.swf
Digital Investigator Traininghttp://21cif.imsa.edu/resources/lapackage
Kermit the Frog Search Challengehttp://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/SC001/SC_002.swf
Kermit the Frog Answerhttp://www.southampton.liu.edu/news/commence/1996/kermit.htm
AVLhttp://www.avl.lib.al.us/ Mckinley shxnxkff
Original Documents Onlinehttp://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone
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.
Lincoln Photo Hoaxhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/02calhoun.html
Hoax Photo Testhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html
More Reliable Wikipedia-Citizendiumhttp://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page
Evaluation Wizard-Authorhttp://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/evaluate/