Class Week 5 Friday 9/28

Devo: Liz

Research Skills with Ms. Young

Learning Target:After instruction, learners are expected to effectively navigate Google to find non-scholarly information. Additionally, after instruction, learners will have a framework and system for evaluating websites.

I can demonstrate digital literacy by developing my information literacy skills.  


Showed Stones (a book that tests 1st grade literacy skills)

Information Literacy Instruction:  Beth Arjona

Types of Information:

• Trade (Instructor)
• Scholarly
• Popular 

Showed examples of magazines and we voted: (to identify)

National Geographic (popular) 

Time (popular)

Reading Today (trade)

Reading Research Quarterly (scholarly) 

Children's Mathematics (trade)

Instructor (trade)

Class Make Up:  find one of each type and tell me when you would use that type of publication.

Goal-to know what type of information you are looking for (scholarly, trade, popular) before researching so you can research effectively.

Google (showed in images) that you can search by color (even for a book on Calvinism that is red).  

https://get.google.com/tips/  

138 tips 

Class Make Up:  Share your favorite 15 tips in your post.   (we explored for 5 minutes and then shared our tips with the group!) 

controlF (lets you search on that website)

Article discussion: What tips for checking the facts? 

Credibility

Accuracy 

Reasonableness

Support

Autism and Vaccines (should I vaccinate?)  

Look at KNOW vaccines

Share how you know if it is C,A,R,S and your overall Evaluation.(is the information appropriate to help you decide if you are going to vaccinate, or if you used this site, would you be vaccinating or not vaccinating based on not credible content.)

In class we shared here: the group chart